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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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Cognitive animacy and its relation to linguistic animacy: evidence from Japanese and Persian [PDF]
Language Sciences, 2021 Abstract Animacy, commonly defined as the distinction between living and non-living entities, is a useful notion in cognitive science and linguistics employed to describe and predict variation in psychological and linguistic behaviour. In the (psycho)linguistics literature we find linguistic animacy dichotomies which are (implicitly) assumed to ...
Thijs Trompenaars +3 more
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NP Animacy Identification for Anaphora Resolution
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2007 In anaphora resolution for English, animacy identification can play an integral role in the application of agreement restrictions between pronouns and candidates, and as a result, can improve the accuracy of anaphora resolution systems. In this paper, two methods for animacy identification are proposed and evaluated using intrinsic and extrinsic ...
Constantin Orasan, Richard Evans 0002
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Building on Word Animacy to Determine Coreference Chain Animacy in Cultural Narratives
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2017 Animacy is the characteristic of being able to independently carry out actions in a story world (e.g., movement, communication). It is a necessary property of characters in stories, and so detecting animacy is an important step in automatic story understanding.
Labiba Jahan +2 more
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Animacy restrictions without animacy features: The case of strong pronouns in French and Spanish
GlossaWhen used as complements in prepositional phrases, French (and to a certain extent also Spanish) strong and null pronouns seem to differ in animacy: Typically, strong pronouns have human antecedents and null pronouns inanimate ones.
Steffen Heidinger, Yanis Da Cunha
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Subject-object asymmetries in the processing of European Portuguese cleft structures [PDF]
IsoglossThis study investigates the intervention effects on the processing of standard clefts by adult speakers of European Portuguese, focusing on the semantic feature of animacy.
Xinyi Li, Maria Lobo, Joana Teixeira
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Animacy Distinctions Arise from Iterated Learning [PDF]
Open Linguistics, 2018 Linguistic animacy reflects a particular construal of biological distinctions encountered in the world, passed through cultural and cognitive filters. This study explores the process by which our construal of animacy becomes encoded in the grammars of ...
Vihman Virve-Anneli +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Since the seminal work of Heider and Simmel, and Michotte’s research, many studies have shown that, under appropriate conditions, displays of simple geometric shapes elicit rich and vivid impressions of animacy and intentionality.
Giulia Parovel
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KONSEP ANIMASI DALAM NOMINA BAHASA JAWA: SEBUAH KAJIAN TIPOLOGI ANIMASI AWAL
Kajian Linguistik dan Sastra, 2021 This study discussed the animacy concept in Javanese. This is to show how the animacy concept is reflected on pronouns and parts of the body, and behavioral verbs (agentive) between human, animal, and thing.
Khristianto Khristianto +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionFree recall tends to be better for names of animate concepts such as animals than for names of inanimate objects. In Popp and Serra’s 2016 article, the authors replicated this “animacy effect” in free recall but when participants studied ...
Eric Y. Mah +5 more
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