Xiaochuan Li

Typicality in referent choice: what the description leaves open

A description built on a superordinate category term (an animal perched on a branch) does not pick out its members evenly: some come to mind more readily than others. This paper separates three conditions under which such a description meets two candidate referents differing in t...

Typicality in referent choice: what the description leaves open

A description built on a superordinate category term (an animal perched on a branch) does not pick out its members evenly: some come to mind more readily than others. This paper separates three conditions under which such a description meets two candidate referents differing in t...