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Humans, Animals, Things and Animacy
Open Linguistics, 2019 Animacy influences the patterns of subject-verb agreement marking in many languages, including Persian and Inari Saami. In Persian, animate plural subjects trigger plural agreement on the verb, whereas inanimate subjects may or may not trigger agreement.
Bayanati Shiva, Toivonen Ida
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The animacy effect on free recall is equally large in mixed and pure word lists or pairs
Scientific Reports, 2023 The cognitive mechanisms underlying the animacy effect on free recall have as yet to be identified. According to the attentional-prioritization account, animate words are better recalled because they recruit more attention at encoding than inanimate ...
Gesa Fee Komar +3 more
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Effects of Animacy in Grammar and Cognition: Introduction to Special Issue
Open Linguistics, 2019 Most, if not all, languages exhibit “animacy effects”: grammatical structures interact with the relative animacy of noun referents, as represented on various versions of animacy scales, with human discourse participants at one end and inanimate objects ...
Vihman Virve-Anneli, Nelson Diane
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Animacy Processing in Autism: Event-Related Potentials Reflect Social Functioning Skills
Brain Sciences, 2023 Though previous studies with autistic individuals have provided behavioral evidence of animacy perception difficulties, the spatio-temporal dynamics of animacy processing in autism remain underexplored.
Eleni Peristeri +7 more
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Behavioral Sciences, 2023 The global population is inevitably aging due to increased life expectancy and declining birth rates, leading to an amplified demand for innovative social and healthcare services. One promising avenue is the introduction of companion robots. These robots
Xucong Hu, Song Tong
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Age differences in the effect of animacy on Mandarin sentence processing [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Animate nouns are preferred for grammatical subjects, whereas inanimate nouns are preferred for grammatical objects. Animacy provides important semantic cues for sentence comprehension.
Xinmiao Liu, Wenbin Wang, Haiyan Wang
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Temporal dynamics of animacy categorization in the brain of patients with mild cognitive impairment.
PLoS ONE, 2022 Electroencephalography (EEG) has been commonly used to measure brain alterations in Alzheimer's Disease (AD). However, reported changes are limited to those obtained from using univariate measures, including activation level and frequency bands.
Hamed Karimi +6 more
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Gradient Effects of Animacy on Differential Object Marking in Turkish
Open Linguistics, 2019 Animacy is a pervasive cognitive category that is displayed in the grammatical behavior of the world’s languages through categorical or gradient effects.
Krause Elif, von Heusinger Klaus
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How Animacy and Verbal Information Influence V2 Sentence Processing: Evidence from Eye Movements
Open Linguistics, 2019 There exists a clear association between animacy and the grammatical function of transitive subject. The grammar of some languages require the transitive subject to be high in animacy, or at least higher than the object.
de Swart Peter, van Bergen Geertje
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Word order in French: the role of animacy
Glossa, 2021 A major goal of the quantitative study of syntax has been to identify factors that have predictive power on speaker choices in the face of word-order or valence alternations (e.g. Arnold et al. 2000; Bresnan et al.
Anne Abeillé +3 more
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