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Lexical case marking affects the processing of animacy in simple verbs, but not particle verbs: Evidence from event-related potentials

open access: yesGlossa, 2018
In case-marking languages like German, nonstandard nominative-dative verbs lead to enhanced processing costs. So far, it is unclear if these case-marking effects reflect the special syntax or semantics of nominative-dative verbs.
Anna Czypionka, Carsten Eulitz
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Two places for causees in productive isiXhosa morphological causatives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Gave a guest lecture on my joint work with Zoliswa Mali on isiXhosa causatives ...
Myler, Neil
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Relational Identities and Other-Than-Human Agency in Archaeology

open access: yes, 2018
Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology explores the benefits and consequences of archaeological theorizing on and interpretation of the social agency of nonhumans as relational beings capable of producing change in the world ...
Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, Hendon, Julia A.
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Visually Perceiving the Intentions of Others [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
I argue that we sometimes visually perceive the intentions of others. Just as we can see something as blue or as moving to the left, so too can we see someone as intending to evade detection or as aiming to traverse a physical obstacle.
Helton, Grace
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Literacy overrides effects of animacy: A picture-naming study with pre-literate German children and adult speakers of German and Arabic.

open access: yesPLoS ONE
Animacy plays a key role for human cognition, which is also reflected in the way humans process language. However, while experiments on sentence processing show reliable effects of animacy on word order and grammatical function assignment, effects of ...
Sarah Dolscheid   +2 more
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Context and Animacy Play a Role in Dynamic Decision-Making

open access: yesJournal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation, 2013
Perception, judgment, and reasoning are all processes that are sensitive to cues to animacy (i.e. the presence of signals that indicate an object behaves as if it has intentions and internal goals).
Magda Osman, Alexandros Ananiadis-Basias
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Semantics as a gateway to language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper presents an account of semantics as a system that integrates conceptual representations into language. I define the semantic system as an interface level of the conceptual system CS that translates conceptual representations into a format that
Wiese, Heike
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The Impact of Face Inversion on Animacy Categorization

open access: yesi-Perception, 2017
Face animacy perception is categorical: Gradual changes in the real/artificial appearance of a face lead to nonlinear behavioral responses. Neural markers of face processing are also sensitive to face animacy, further suggesting that these are meaningful
Benjamin Balas   +3 more
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Comparing linguistic judgments and corpus frequencies as windows on grammatical competence: A study of argument linearization in German clauses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
We present an overview of several corpus studies we carried out into the frequencies of argument NP orderings in the midfield of subordinate and main clauses of German.
Harbusch, K., Kempen, G.
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Upstream Downtown: Theatre Creation Through a Feminist and Multispecies Lens [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In the historically masculine Western sciences, we are told we can fully know a being by dissecting, labelling, testing, observing, and documenting. This article explores how multispecies and feminist theatre creation and performance, specifically in the
Johnson, Morgan, Simpson, Alexandra
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