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The Reference of Proper Names: Testing Usage and Intuitions
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Devitt, Michael; Porot, Nicolas – Cognitive Science, 2018
Experiments on theories of reference have mostly tested referential intuitions. We think that experiments should rather be testing linguistic usage. Substantive Aim (I): to test classical description theories of proper names against usage by "elicited production." Our results count decisively against those theories. Methodological Aim…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Nouns, Naming, Intuition