Examined adults' intuitions about the distinction between what is said and what is implied by indicative utterances, such as "Jane has three children." Four experiments demonstrated that people assume that enriched pragmatics play a significant role in determining what is said and recognize a distinction between what is said and what is…

This study investigates children's ability to use language to guide their choice of individuation criterion in the domains of objects and events. Previous work (Shipley, E. F., & Shepperson, B. (1990). Countable entities: developmental changes. "Cognition," 34, 109-136.) has shown that children have a strong bias to use a spatio-temporal…