Do Ducks Lay Eggs? How People Interpret Generic Assertions

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Generics, Prevalence, and Default Inferences.Sangeet Khemlani, Sarah-Jane Leslie & Sam Glucksberg - 2009 - Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society:443--8.

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Manifestations of genericity.Yael Greenberg - 2003 - New York: Routledge.
What Some Generic Sentences Mean.Nicholas Asher & Michael Morreau - 1995 - In Greg N. Carlson & Francis Jeffry Pelletier (eds.), The Generic Book. University of Chicago Press. pp. 300--339.

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