It's not clear cut. It appears to be the case for things like counting, as detailed by the article. For emotions, children obviously can express a range of the

It's not clear cut. It appears to be the case for things like counting, as detailed by the article. For emotions, children obviously can express a range of them before acquiring language, so it does not seem it would be the case; but that is not really a settled matter (see eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification) Regarding counting, some cultures have adopted different bases: for instance, some native american cultures do use octal as they count the space between fingers rather than fingers themselves. The Mayas used base 20, presumably due to using fingers + toes.