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Children's Developing Intuitions About the Truth Conditions and Implications of Novel Generics Versus Quantified Statements
Brandone, Amanda C.; Gelman, Susan A.; Hedglen, Jenna. - : Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015. : Academic Press, 2015
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Children’s developing intuitions about the truth conditions and implications of novel generics vs. quantified statements
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Generic Language Use Reveals Domain Differences in Children’s Expectations about Animal and Artifact Categories
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Do Lions Have Manes? For Children, Generics Are About Kinds Rather Than Quantities
Brandone, Amanda C.; Cimpian, Andrei; Leslie, Sarah‐jane. - : Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012. : Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2012
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Theory-based considerations influence the interpretation of generic sentences
Abstract: Under what circumstances do people agree that a kind-referring generic sentence (e.g., “Swans are beautiful”) is true? We hypothesized that theory-based considerations are sufficient, independently of prevalence/frequency information, to lead to acceptance of a generic statement. To provide evidence for this general point, we focused on demonstrating the impact of a specific theory-based, essentialist expectation–that the physical features characteristic of a biological kind emerge as a natural product of development–on participants’ reasoning about generics. Across 3 studies, adult participants (N = 99) confirmed our hypothesis, preferring to map generic sentences (e.g., “Dontrets have long tails”) onto novel categories for which the key feature (e.g., long tails) was absent in all the young but present in all the adults rather than onto novel categories for which the key feature was at least as prevalent but present in some of the young and in some of the adults. Control conditions using “some”- and “most”-quantified sentences demonstrated that this mapping is specific to generic meaning. These results suggest that generic meaning does not reduce to quantification and is sensitive to theory-based expectations.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843935
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20352078
https://doi.org/10.1080/01690960903025227
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Fast-mapping placeholders: Using words to talk about kinds
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Differences in Preschoolers' and Adults' Use of Generics about Novel Animals and Artifacts: A Window onto a Conceptual Divide
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