The acquisition of generics
It has been argued that the primary acquisition of genericity in early child speech poses a problem for standard quantificational approaches to generics and instead motivates the claim that generics give voice to an innate, default mode of generalising. This paper argues that analogous puzzles invol...
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Wiley
2024
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| author | Kirkpatrick, JR |
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| description | It has been argued that the primary acquisition of genericity in early
child speech poses a problem for standard quantificational approaches to
generics and instead motivates the claim that generics give voice to an
innate, default mode of generalising. This paper argues that analogous
puzzles involving the acquisition of A-quantifiers undermine the empirical
support for a purely cognition-based approach to generics. Instead, these
acquisition puzzles should be solved by generalising the core insight of
the cognitive defaults theory to these expressions, reconciling formal
semantic approaches with the role that cognitive development plays on
lexical competence. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a09545d2-79f2-4740-bcda-ec4ed214ea6a2025-02-25T08:15:32ZThe acquisition of genericsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a09545d2-79f2-4740-bcda-ec4ed214ea6aEnglishSymplectic ElementsWiley2024Kirkpatrick, JRIt has been argued that the primary acquisition of genericity in early child speech poses a problem for standard quantificational approaches to generics and instead motivates the claim that generics give voice to an innate, default mode of generalising. This paper argues that analogous puzzles involving the acquisition of A-quantifiers undermine the empirical support for a purely cognition-based approach to generics. Instead, these acquisition puzzles should be solved by generalising the core insight of the cognitive defaults theory to these expressions, reconciling formal semantic approaches with the role that cognitive development plays on lexical competence. |
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| title | The acquisition of generics |
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