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Intuitions About the Reference of Proper Names: a Meta-Analysis

2020; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 12; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s13164-020-00503-8

1878-5166

Noah van Dongen, Matteo Colombo, Felipe Romero, Jan Sprenger,

Child and Animal Learning Development

Abstract The finding that intuitions about the reference of proper names vary cross-culturally (Machery et al. Cognition 92: 1–12. 2004) was one of the early milestones in experimental philosophy. Many follow-up studies investigated the scope and magnitude of such cross-cultural effects, but our paper provides the first systematic meta-analysis of studies replicating (Machery et al. Cognition 92: 1–12. 2004). In the light of our results, we assess the existence and significance of cross-cultural effects for intuitions about the reference of proper names.