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Cognitive Psychology

Theses and Dissertations

2021

Generics

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Thinking And Talking About Kinds, Ye Ji Seoung Apr 2021

Thinking And Talking About Kinds, Ye Ji Seoung

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Three experiments investigated whether definite singular generics (e.g., the dog barks) require that the kind does not contain multiple subkinds. No effect of generic form was found in experiment 1 and 3. However, experiment 2 found people thought there were fewer subkinds when definite singulars referred to the kind.