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The development of sentence-interpretation strategies in monolingual German-learning children with and without specific language impairment [PDF]
Previous research on sentence comprehension conducted with German-learning children has concentrated on the role of case marking and word order in typically developing children.
Ammon Mary S +35 more
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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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Animacy in early New Zealand english [PDF]
The literature suggests that animacy effects in present-day spoken New Zealand English (NZE) differ from animacy effects in other varieties of English. We seek to determine if such differences have a history in earlier NZE writing or not.
Hundt, Marianne, Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt
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Semantic indeterminacy in object relative clauses [PDF]
This article examined whether semantic indeterminacy plays a role in comprehension of complex structures such as object relative clauses. Study 1 used a gated sentence completion task to assess which alternative interpretations are dominant as the ...
Altmann +74 more
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A motion system for social and animated robots [PDF]
This paper presents an innovative motion system that is used to control the motions and animations of a social robot. The social robot Probo is used to study Human-Robot Interactions (HRI), with a special focus on Robot Assisted Therapy (RAT).
goris, Kristof +4 more
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THE PRAGMATIC ASPECT OF ANIMACY/NON-ANIMACY GRAMMATICAL CATEGOTY [PDF]
Обсуждается лингвистический статус грамматической категории одушевлённости/неодушевлённости, её формальные и содержательные показатели; анализируются случаи, демонстрирующие колебание грамматических маркеров, с учётом интерпретативного потенциала возможностей системы языка и прагматических установок homo loquens.
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Effects of Animacy in Grammar and Cognition: Introduction to Special Issue
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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I argue that we can visually perceive others as seeing agents. I start by characterizing perceptual processes as those that are causally controlled by proximal stimuli.
Phillips, Ben
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Abstract We examine the effects of morphosyntactic marking and selectional restrictions of predicates on conceptual and grammatical animacy. We argue in favour of animacy as an ontological category with human, animate and inanimate entities representing discrete subtypes in the domain of entities.
Swart, P.J.F. de, Hoop, H. de
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Temporal dynamics of animacy categorization in the brain of patients with mild cognitive impairment.
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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