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Word order in French: the role of animacy
Glossa, 2021 A major goal of the quantitative study of syntax has been to identify factors that have predictive power on speaker choices in the face of word-order or valence alternations (e.g. Arnold et al. 2000; Bresnan et al.
Anne Abeillé +3 more
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Foxes, hounds, and horses : Who or which? [PDF]
, 2006 Writers of English can choose whether to mark a high level of sentience in a nonhuman animal by selecting the word who rather than which. An examination of texts relating to foxhunting on the world wide web showed that, in reference to the nonhuman ...
Gupta, A.F.
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Gradient Effects of Animacy on Differential Object Marking in Turkish
Open Linguistics, 2019 Animacy is a pervasive cognitive category that is displayed in the grammatical behavior of the world’s languages through categorical or gradient effects.
Krause Elif, von Heusinger Klaus
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Differences of Human Perceptions of a Robot Moving using Linear or Slow in, Slow out Velocity Profiles When Performing a Cleaning Task [PDF]
, 2019 We investigated how a robot moving with different velocity profiles affects a person's perception of it when working together on a task. The two profiles are the standard linear profile and a profile based on the animation principles of slow in, slow out.
Amirabdollahian, Farshid +5 more
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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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Age differences in the effect of animacy on Mandarin sentence processing [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Animate nouns are preferred for grammatical subjects, whereas inanimate nouns are preferred for grammatical objects. Animacy provides important semantic cues for sentence comprehension.
Xinmiao Liu, Wenbin Wang, Haiyan Wang
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Disentangling five dimensions of animacy in human brain and behaviour
Communications Biology, 2022 An EEG, fMRI, and behavioural investigation of five object dimensions related to animacy provides insights into how distinct dimensions (and animacy) are represented in the brain and behaviour.
Kamila M. Jozwik +5 more
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Okara: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra, 2023 In second language learning, relative clauses are widely studied. However, research comparing Indonesian and foreign learners’ clauses based on animacy has not been widely done.
Arti Prihatini +3 more
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Dative alternation in Indian English: a corpus-based study [PDF]
, 2013 The dative alternation refers to the alternation between two constructions that denote some type of transfer: the double object construction (I give my sister a book) vs. the to-dative construction (I give a book to my sister).
De Cuypere, Ludovic, Verbeke, Saartje
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Episodic encoding is more than the sum of its parts: An fMRI investigation of multifeatural contextual encoding [PDF]
, 2006 Episodic memories are characterized by their contextual richness, yet little is known about how the various features comprising an episode are brought together in memory. Here we employed fMRI and a multidimensional source memory procedure to investigate
Otten, LJ, Rugg, MD, Uncapher, MR
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