Publications

Publication details [#31479]

Star, John R. and Jonathan Flukes. 2002. Children's Use of Generics in Inductive Inferences. Journal of Cognition and Development 3 (2) : 179–199.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

generic utterance | inducing | inference | noun phrase

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

ISBN

1524-8372

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study examines the impact of generic noun phrases, used to convey novel property information, on children's category-based induction. The findings suggest that both preschool children and adults distinguish generics from "all" and "some" and that age differences exist in the interpretation of generic noun phrases.