Table 2.

In Experiment 2, examples of utterances coded by three categories of set-reference specificity.

CODING OF DESCRIPTION	EXAMPLE OF SPEAKER UTTERANCES
	1-OBJECT TRIALS	3-OBJECT TRIALS
CATEGORY 1: NO SET INFORMATION
Bare plural	“The politician on the right got cupcakes”	“Michael Jordan bought footballs”
Bare singular	“Charlie Brown gets candy”	“Winnie the Pooh gets honey”
Indefinite determiner	“Tom Cruise has some pomegranates”	“Pam got some hotdogs”
Quantifier/Measurement	“Hillary Clinton has a lot of water”	“The boy with the blanket gets a bunch of rocks”
Adjective	“The red-headed boy got less chairs”	“He bought less rings than the guy in brown”
Count	“Charlie Brown got 4 pieces of candy”	“Rabbit got 4 jars of honey”
CATEGORY 2: DEFINITE NP IMPLIES TOTAL SET
Definite plural	“Simon Cowell and the buildings”	“The woman had the iPhones”
Definite singular	“The democrats got the water”	“Winnie got the honey”
CATEGORY 3: EXPLICIT MENTION OF SET STATUS
Universal/Existential quantifier	“The humans got all the candy”	“Britney Spears got all the Chihuahuas”
Partitive adjective	“Michael Jordan got most of the roses”	“They both have the same amount”
Partitive count	“Twelve of them go to Paula”	“Dwight actually brought 6 of them”
Pronoun	“Bert has the other half”	“The apple man has the other half of the iPhones”
Predicate	-	“The two on the right split the Duff beer”