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When Couches Have Eyes: The Effect of Visual Context on Children's Reference Processing
Frontiers in Communication, 2020 We examined the effects of semantic and visual cues to animacy on children's and adults' interpretation of ambiguous pronouns, using the visual world paradigm.
Rebecca Cooper-Cunningham +3 more
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The Red Blanket: A dance of animacy [PDF]
Global Studies of Childhood, 2019 This article will focus in on one short play spell in the outdoor space of a classroom of 2-year-olds. Using the medium of video as data, it explores the way that children’s bodies are caught up in what Ingold calls a ‘dance of animacy’, when bodies and matter encounter each other.
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People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 1309-1327, May 2026.Abstract Ecological restoration projects with diverse interest groups face the continual challenge of engaging values, goals and cultures that may vary greatly among partners. As part of an eco‐cultural, riparian restoration project led by the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, our research examines the instrumental, relational and intrinsic ...
Sarah Woodbury +3 more
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Journal of Vision, 2017 Superordinate visual classification for example, identifying an image as animal, plant, or mineral is computationally challenging because radically different items (e.g., octopus, dog ) must be grouped into a common class ( animal ). It is plausible that learning superordinate categories teaches us not only the membership of particular (familiar) items,
Schmidt, Filipp +3 more
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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Animacy in Interrogative Pronouns [Elektronisk resurs]
, 1995 The present paper presents a typological investigation of whether languages make an animacy distinction in their independent nominal interrogative pronouns. The data comprises 24 languages and was taken mainly from grammatical descriptions.
Lindström, Eva,
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Glossa, 2017 This paper builds on the observation that the animacy effects we find in English genitive variation are part of a larger cross-linguistic pattern as reflected in possession splits based on animacy (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2001, 2002; Stolz et al.
Anette Rosenbach
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The Acquisition of Case in Spanish Pronominal Object Clitics in English-Speaking College-Level L2 Learners [PDF]
, 2013 The Second language acquisition (SLA) of Spanish pronominal object clitics (POCs) has been a topic of research with regards to clitic placement (Houston, 1997; Lee, 1987; LoCoco, 1987; VanPatten, 1984; and VanPatten & Houston 1998), acquiring specific ...
Olsen, Michael Kevin
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Seeing life in the teeming world: animacy perception in arthropods
Frontiers in PsychologyThe term “animacy perception” describes the ability of animals to detect cues that indicate whether a particular object in the environment is alive or not.
Massimo De Agrò +2 more
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The language of an inanimate narrator
Open Linguistics, 2018 We show by means of a corpus study that the language used by the inanimate first person narrator in the novel Specht en zoon deviates from what we would expect on the basis of the fact that the narrator is inanimate, but at the same time also differs ...
Trompenaars Thijs +3 more
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