{"pk":28559,"title":"Generic noun phrases in child speech","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A wealth of developmental evidence suggests that children es-sentialise natural kind but not artifact categories, and that bothadults and children use generic language less with artifacts aswell (Gelman, 2003). Here we further explore the latter resultusing a novel model for generic identification. We apply ourmodel to a much larger dataset than before, consisting of 26CHILDES corpora of naturalistic speech involving children ata variety of ages and in a variety of contexts. We found noconsistent preference for generic usage in animates over arti-facts. Follow-up analyses indicate that this result was probablydriven by our inclusion of a wider variety of nouns into ourdataset than previous work.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"essentialism; generics; development; language"}],"section":"Papers with Oral Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05c09123","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Samarth","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mehrotra","name_suffix":"","institution":"Birla Institute of Technology and Science","department":""},{"first_name":"Amy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Perfors","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Melbourne","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28559/galley/18430/download/"}]}