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BI 137 Brian Butterworth: Can Fish Count?
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Is There a Difference Between Language and Counting Words?
One of the things that a modern humans learn in the course of growing up are counting words. It's not clear when humans started to have counting words. In three of the largest language families, counted words are among the slowest changing. And so if you kind of retradict or predict back from the oldest examples you've got, you can say willai may be even 30 thousand years ago.
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