Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10459774 | Journal of Memory and Language | 2011 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
⺠Generics are unquantified generalizations like “ducks lay eggs”. ⺠Universals, in contrast, involve the quantifier “all”. ⺠Adults often incorrectly judge universals like “all ducks lay eggs” to be true. ⺠This may be due to their interpreting the universal as a generic. ⺠This is predicted by the hypothesis that generics express default generalizations.
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Authors
Sarah-Jane Leslie, Sangeet Khemlani, Sam Glucksberg,