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Barner, David – Language Learning and Development, 2012
How do children learn the meanings of number words like "one," "two," and "three"? Whereas many words that children learn in early acquisition denote individual things and their properties (e.g., cats, colors, shapes), numerals, like quantifiers, denote the properties of sets. Unlike quantifiers such as "several" and "many," numerals denote…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Number Concepts, Nouns, Inferences