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Leslie, Sarah-Jane; Khemlani, Sangeet; Glucksberg, Sam – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Generics are statements such as "tigers are striped" and "ducks lay eggs". They express general, though not universal or exceptionless, claims about kinds (Carlson & Pelletier, 1995). For example, the generic "ducks lay eggs" seems true even though many ducks (e.g. the males) do not lay eggs. The universally quantified version of the statement…
Descriptors: Prediction, Cognitive Processes, Generalization, Language Processing