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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2008 Nov 28;110(1):1–22. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.08.005

Table 1. Mean proportion of generic utterances (SD) out of total utterances by domain, condition, and age group.

Domain

Experiment Condition Age Group Animals Artifacts
1 Generic Children .83 (.21) .70 (.25)
Adults .45 (.33) .35 (.28)
Neutral Children .17 (.21) .13 (.17)
Adults .28 (.30) .18 (.20)
2 Generic Children .48 (.36) .42 (.43)
Adults .53 (.37) .36 (.28)
Neutral Children .12 (.22) .05 (.13)
Adults .15 (.28) .10 (.19)
3 Generic Children .69 (.31) .56 (.37)