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Generic language and judgements about category membership: can generics highlight properties as central?
In: Language and cognitive processes. - Abingdon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 24 (2009) 4, 481-505
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Effects of language and similarity on comparison processing
In: Language learning and development. - Philadelphia, Pa. : Taylor & Francis 5 (2009) 3, 147-171
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Generic language and judgements about category membership: Can generics highlight properties as central?
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Effects of language and similarity on comparison processing
Abstract: What factors promote conceptual (deep) processing in young children? In this research we examine two factors that seem likely to invite a focus on important conceptual information. The first is comparison processing: comparisons (such as “cats are like dogs”) involve a structural alignment that highlights common relational structure as well as differences connected to that structure. The second factor is the use of generic language (such as “cats have sharp teeth”), which invites a construal organized around information that is relatively central to the represented item. We ask whether these two forces can combine to foster deep processing in four-year-olds, as well as in adults. Our secondary goal is to test whether the process of comparison operates in the same way in preschool children as in adults. In two studies (N = 132), we examined preschool children's and adults’ comparison processing, by asking participants to produce either commonalities or differences for pairs of items while varying similarity (high vs. low) and wording (generic vs. specific). As predicted, for both ages, (1) high-similarity pairs generated both more commonalities and more alignable differences than low-similarity pairs; (2) generic wording differed from specific language in relatively more deep properties for both ages; and (3) the combination of generic language and high similarity was especially favorable for producing deep properties. The detailed parallels between age groups suggest that the same comparison processes hold for children as for adults. Most importantly, the results show that two ways of highlighting deep conceptual structure—generic language and structural alignment—can be combined to provide a source of insight for both children and adults.
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/15475440902824079
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2834177
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20216912
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Generic language and judgements about category membership: Can generics highlight properties as central?
In: Language and cognitive processes. - Abingdon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 24 (2008) 4, 481-505
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This cat has nine lives? Children's memory for genericity in language
In: Developmental psychology. - Richmond, Va. [u.a.] : American Psychological Association 43 (2007) 5, 1256-1268
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Preschool children use linguistic form class and pragmatic cues to interpret generics
In: Child development. - Malden, Ma. [u.a.] : Blackwell 74 (2003) 1, 308-325
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