Publications by authors named "Peggy J Goetz"
Lang Learn Dev
January 2008
Article Synopsis
- Generic knowledge refers to broad concepts about categories of things (like birds flying or a chair being for sitting).
- The study investigates when and how children start using language to express this generic knowledge, suggesting they instinctively assume nouns represent general categories.
- Findings from conversations show that children talk about kinds early, need little help from parents to learn these forms, and can recognize different ways to use language generically, although there are individual differences in how they form generalizations.
