Paper: cicl.stanford.edu/papers/yu202...
Code: github.com/sunnyych/Chi...
Thanks to my wonderful collaborators ‪@alvinwmtan.bsky.social‬ ‪@siyingzhg.bsky.social‬ @phillip @riley ‪@tobigerstenberg.bsky.social‬ @david! I will be presenting this work on August 1st, during Poster Session 2 :)

We find that generics are more common for biological kinds than artifacts but are not more common for non-living natural kinds or social kinds.

First, we web-scraped 694 children’s books and analyzed the book corpus and caregivers’ speech in CHILDES. We expand the scope of previous corpus analysis in three ways: 1. A bigger corpus 2. More subject kinds, including non-living natural kinds and social kinds 3. Additional statement types

New #cogsci2025 paper! with @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social
In “Generics Revisited: Analyzing generalizations in children’s books and caregivers’ speech” we revisit the connection between generic use in children’s language input and psychological essentialism.