Does pretense have an advantage over non-generic language in conveying general knowledge?
Pretend play may be well-suited for conveying general knowledge because it readily allows infor-mation about particular agents or objects to be conveyed without using language. Consider a pretense enactment in which two dogs are afraid of some raccoons and run away from them. In language, this event would typically be expressed with a non-generic statement such as ‘‘the two dogs were afraid of the raccoons.” As mentioned above, children resist inferring that non-generic statements like this express general knowledge (e.g., Chambers et al., 2008; Cimpian & Markman, 2008; Graham et al., 2011; Stock et al., 2009). Pretense, in contrast, might not be subject to the same interpretive resistance (i.e., because it can express information without using non-generic language) and might allow children to use information about the particular individuals in the pretend scenarios to draw generalizations about kinds.
Does pretense have an advantage over non-generic language in conveying general knowledge?Pretend play may be well-suited for conveying general knowledge because it readily allows infor-mation about particular agents or objects to be conveyed without using language. Consider a pretense enactment in which two dogs are afraid of some raccoons and run away from them. In language, this event would typically be expressed with a non-generic statement such as ‘‘the two dogs were afraid of the raccoons.” As mentioned above, children resist inferring that non-generic statements like this express general knowledge (e.g., Chambers et al., 2008; Cimpian & Markman, 2008; Graham et al., 2011; Stock et al., 2009). Pretense, in contrast, might not be subject to the same interpretive resistance (i.e., because it can express information without using non-generic language) and might allow children to use information about the particular individuals in the pretend scenarios to draw generalizations about kinds.
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