Generic language and judgements about category membership: Can generics highlight properties as central?

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 481-505

  Hollander, Michelle A ^a   Gelman, Susan A ^a   Raman, Lakshmi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENERIC LANGUAGE; HUMAN; INFANT; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 70349760608     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960802223485     Document Type: Article

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