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Shifting from animacy to agentivity

, 2018
The target article argues for a need to distinguish between covert and overt (ly marked) shifts in animacy and claims that understanding these shifts allows for “a deeper understanding of animacy and its effects on language” (abstract target article ...
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Primus, Beatrice, Marco García García, Beatrice Primus, Himmelmann, Nikolaus P., García García, Marco   +5 more
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Wind’s Animacies

Media+Environment
This is an article about wind, dust, and their relations to life. It is a meditation on the liveliness of wind and airborne particles as they are experienced on the ground; in cultural texts including film, poetry, and oral history; and in the medium of satellite imagery.
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Lexical case marking affects the processing of animacy in simple verbs, but not particle verbs: Evidence from event-related potentials

Glossa, 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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Context and Animacy Play a Role in Dynamic Decision-Making

Journal 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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Animacy and Word Specificity

, 2020
In this experiment, we plan to investigate the possible relationship between the animacy effect in memory and level of word ...
Michael Serra, Carlee DeYoung
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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.

PLoS 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, Judith Schlenter, Martina Penke   +2 more
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Quantifying semantic animacy in Persian

, 2018
In a direct replication of Radanović et al.’s (2016) work, the typical goal of this paper is to reproduce their experimental results by comparing the distribution of animacy in two languages coming from different language branches within the Indo ...
Mojtahed Sarabi, R.
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Automatic Animacy Classification for Romanian Nouns [PDF]

We introduce the first Romanian animacy classifier, specifically a type-based binary classifier of Romanian nouns into the classes human/non-human, using pre-trained word embeddings and animacy information derived from Romanian WordNet.
Tepei, M., Bloem, J.; id_orcid
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Exploring animacy as a mnemonic dimension

, 2016
There is a great deal of evidence across cognitive science that animacy, or more generally, the features that make up what it means to be a living thing, is a foundational dimension of human cognition.
VanArsdall, Joshua Edward
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Animacy in morphosyntactic variation

, 2014
In this dissertation, I demonstrate that animacy of subject referents strongly conditions verbal morphosyntactic variation in English varieties. Using three quantitative case studies, I investigate copula and subject verb agreement in two English ...
McLaughlin, Brittany Dael
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