Whether social uses of language, in concert with their acquisition, are driven by the awareness of the social value assigned to linguistic variants remains unanswered. The present study examines how 185 French native speakers, aged from 2 to 6 years from different social backgrounds, produce and evaluate a well-known French phonological alternation, the liaison: obligatory liaisons, which are c...

A critical question in cognitive science concerns how numerical knowledge develops. One essential component of an adult concept of number is ordinality: the greater than and less than relationships between numbers. Here it is shown in two experiments that 11-month-old infants successfully discriminated, whereas 9-month-old infants failed to discriminate, sequences of numerosities that descended...

Evaluative theories of emotions purport to shed light on the nature by appealing values. Three kinds evaluative dominate recent literature: judgment theory equates with value judgments; perceptual perceptions values, and attitudinal attitudes. This paper defends a fourth kind emotions, mostly neglected so far: reactive theory. Reactive claim that are attitudes which arise in reaction value.