Future studies could more directly test whether the absence of non-generic language is critical for children to treat information in pretense as general. For instance, children could be shown pretend-play enactments accompanied by non-generic narration (e.g., ‘‘This dog is running away from the raccoon”). If children do not generalize information from these scenarios, it would suggest that learning from pretense benefits from the fact that it can convey information without non-generic language. Alternatively, if children continued to interpret pretend-play enactments as conveying general information, even when they included non-generic language, this would suggest that other features of pretend play may support the transmission of general knowledge .