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WASHINGTON - Answer this without counting: Are there more X's here XXXXXX, or here XXXXX? That's a problem facing people whose languages don't include words for more than one or two. Yet researchers say ******** who speak those languages are still able to compare quantities.
"We argue that humans possess an innate system for enumeration that doesn't rely on words," says Brian Butterworth of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London.
In an attempt to prove it, Butterworth compared the numerical skills of ******** from two indigenous Australian groups whose languages don't contain many number words with similar ******** who speak English.
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"We argue that humans possess an innate system for enumeration that doesn't rely on words," says Brian Butterworth of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London.
In an attempt to prove it, Butterworth compared the numerical skills of ******** from two indigenous Australian groups whose languages don't contain many number words with similar ******** who speak English.
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