Table 1.

In Experiment 1, examples of utterances coded by three categories of set-reference specificity.

CODING OF DESCRIPTION	EXAMPLE OF SPEAKER UTTERANCES
	OBJECT-FOCUSED TRIALS		CHARACTER-FOCUSED TRIALS
CATEGORY 1: NO SET INFORMATION
Bare plural	“Obama and the other guy both got houses”	“Harry bought brooms”
Bare singular	“Darth Vader bought gum”	“Pooh brought honey”
Indefinite determiner	“She also got some pantsuits”	“Angelina bought some easels”
Quantifier/Measurement	“A smallish clump of golf balls went to Jordan”	“Big Bird ate lots of apples”
Adjective	“Paula got more microphones”	“He got a few microphones”
Count	“The Joker got nine hotdogs”	“Eeyore bought about five ribbons”
CATEGORY 2: DEFINITE NP IMPLIES TOTAL SET
Definite plural	“Hillary won the pantsuits”	“Tom bought the paintings”
Definite singular	“The gum went to Vader and Skywalker”	“Pooh got the honey”
CATEGORY 3: EXPLICIT MENTION OF SET STATUS
Universal/Existential quantifier	“Some of the golf balls went to Michael Jordan”	“Rachel bought all of the pans”
Partitive adjective	“Most of the rackets went to Michael Phelps”	“Eeyore having most of the bows”
Partitive count	“Eight of the paintings went to Angelina Jolie”	“Martha bought 3/5 of the presents”
Pronoun	“Tom Brady took the rest of the golf balls”	“Tom bought the rest of the pictures”
Predicate	“The apples were split between Big Bird and Elmo”	“Joker bought the remainder of the presents”