Generics
Cognition and Acquisition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10697048 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah‐jane Leslie (0000-0003-1268-4908, corresponding author), Sarah-Jane Leslie |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 117 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-47 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00318108-2007-023 |
| OpenAlex | W2011339838 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 156 |
| References cited | 19 |
`Ducks lay eggs' is a true sentence, and `ducks are female' is a false one. Similarly, `mosquitoes carry the West Nile virus' is obviously true, whereas `mosquitoes don't carry the West Nile virus' is patently false. This is so despite the egg-laying ducks' being a subset of the female ones and despite the number of mosquitoes that don't carry the virus being ninety-nine times the number that do. Puzzling facts such as these have made generic sentences defy adequate semantic treatment. However complex the truth conditions of generics appear to be, though, young children grasp generics more quickly and readily than seemingly simpler quantifiers such as `all' and `some'. I present an account of generics that not only illuminates the strange truth conditions of generics, but also explains how young children find them so comparatively easy to acquire. I then argue that generics give voice to our most cognitively primitive generalizations and that this hypothesis accounts for a variety of facts ranging from acquisition patterns to cross-linguistic data concerning the phonological articulation of operators. I go on to develop an account of the nature of these cognitively fundamental generalizations and argue that this account explains the strange truth-conditional behavior of generics
Articulation (sociology) · Biology · Carry (investment) · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Sentence · Variety (cybernetics) · Virus · West Nile virus · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language and cultural evolution · Language Development and Disorders · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Bias
On Goodness
Literaturas orales y primeros textos coloniales
On the relation between distributivity and maximality
Social Generics in Context
Generics and typicality
Differentiation and Generic Sentences
Children's sensitivity to the knowledge expressed in pedagogical and nonpedagogical contexts
The effect of generic statements on children's causal attributions
Children show heightened knew-it-all-along errors when learning new facts about kinds
Antecedent-Contained Deletion
Negation
Vagueness
Politeness
Metonymy
Word Senses
Scalar Implicatures
Counterfactuals
Exhaustivity in It -Clefts
Constraint-Based Pragmatic Processing
Theory of Mind
Language Comprehension, Inference, and Alternatives
Plurality
Genericity
Focus
Pronouns
Verbal Uncertainty
Quantifier Spreading
Presuppositions, Projection, and Accommodation
Reference and Informativeness
Modified Numerals
Distributivity
Adjective Meaning and Scales
Negative Polarity Items
Event (De)composition
Feminist Philosophy of Language in the Analytic Tradition
Spatial Terms
Ironic Utterances
Metaphor
Turn-Taking
Quantification
Prosody and Meaning
Bias
Ideology, Generics, and Common Ground
The Original Sin of Cognition
The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics
On Goodness
“Hillary Clinton is the Only Man in the Obama Administration”
The Dynamics of Generics
Contextualising Generic and Universal Generalisations
A Causal Semantics of Is Generics
Doxastic Wronging, Disrespectful Belief, & The Moral Over-Demandingness Objection
Generics favor stability
Generic interpretations of possessive recursion in English-speaking children
Generic uses of the English pronoun one and the Spanish pronoun uno in parliamentary debates
Emotional Injustice
Teaching as evolutionary precursor to language
Moral Principles as Generics
Generic View of Gendered Slurs and the Subset Argument
Difference and Robustness in the Patterns of Philosophical Intuition Across Demographic Groups
What is 4E cognitive science
Are Generics Defaults? A Study on the Interpretation of Generics and Universals in 3 Age-Groups of Spanish-Speaking Individuals
Generics and Epistemic Injustice
Commemoration and Constriction
“Experts think...” The production and comprehension of propositional attitude generics
Conditionals As Representative Inferences
The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Kant's Nova Dilucidatio
Becoming episodic
“Philosophers care about the truth”
Generic cognition
Collaborative pedagogy
Generic conjunctivitis
Keeping context in mind
Beyond Belief
Why so serious? An inquiry on racist jokes
A Feature‐based Account of Genericity and Kind Reference
From individual to general experience
Generics as Expectations
Generics and social justice
Reconceptualising the Psychological Theory of Generics
Falsifying generic stereotypes
Taste, traits, and tendencies
What’s positive and negative about generics
Genericity generalized
Normative generics and social kind terms
Responses to critics
Prejudice, generics, and resistance to evidence
Stereotyping and generics
What’s so bad about being a manageress
Implicit bias and qualiefs
Clinical reasoning and generics
A theory of argumentative success
Perceptual Learning, Categorical Perception, and Cognitive Permeation
Dichotomous thinking about social groups
Teleological generics
The role of exceptions in children's and adults' judgments about generic statements
Testimony and observation of statistical evidence interact in adults' and children's category-based induction
Structural thinking about social categories
Learning the rules of the game
Pornography and Dehumanization
| Unique citing works | 156 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8,21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 146 |