Preschool children’s sensitivity to the generic and non-generic distinctions
Generics convey generalizations about kinds e.g., “fish swim,” or “birds have wings”. In contrast, non-generics express facts about specific individuals or groups of individuals, e.g., “my cat has caught two mice” or “two birds are sitting in that tree”. To interpret utterances generically or non-ge...
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Faculty of Philology, University of Bialystok
2019-03-01
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| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.filologia.uwb.edu.pl/index.php/c/article/view/570 |