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Animacy and non-animacy denoting nouns

, 2023
Universität Zürich Institut für Computerlinguistik Manfred Klenner Die Daten sind im Rahmen eines Projekts, das vom Schweizer Nationalfond gefördert wurde (Nr. 105215-179302), entstanden. ------------------------------------------------------------------
Manfred Klenner
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The role of inhibitory control in animacy effect: evidence from retrieval practice tasks

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2019
Animate stimuli are remembered better than inanimate stimuli. The proximate mechanism of this preferential retrieval of animate stimuli has not been clarified.
Jun Tao, Bilin Deng, Saisai Hu, Lin Xu
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Identifying critical kinematic features of animate motion and contribution to animacy perception

iScience, 2023
Summary: Humans can distinguish flying birds from drones based solely on motion features when no image information is available. However, it remains unclear which motion features of animate motion induce our animacy perception.
Yifei Han, Wenhao Han, Liang Li, Tao Zhang, Yizheng Wang   +4 more
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Do young children, like young adults, remember animates better than inanimates?

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
It has repeatedly been shown in adults that animates are remembered better than inanimates. According to the adaptive view of human memory this is due to the fact that animates are generally more important for survival than inanimates.
Aurélia Bugaiska, Patrick Bonin, Arnaud Witt   +2 more
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Building on Word Animacy to Determine Coreference Chain Animacy in Cultural Narratives

, 2021
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 ...
Chauhan, Geeticka, Finlayson, Mark, Jahan, Labiba   +2 more
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When a stone tries to climb up a slope: The interplay between lexical and perceptual animacy in referential choices

Frontiers in Psychology, 2013
Several studies suggest that referential choices are influenced by animacy. On the one hand, animate referents are more likely to be mentioned as subjects than inanimate referents.
Jorrig eVogels, Emiel eKrahmer, Alfons eMaes   +2 more
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Thematic role assignment in non-default verb classes: A cross-linguistic comparison of English and German

Glossa, 2021
The influence of sentential cues (such as animacy and word order) on thematic role interpretation differs as a function of language (MacWhinney et al. 1984).
Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Louise Kyriaki, Matthias Schlesewsky   +2 more
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NP animacy identification for anaphora resolution

, 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.
Evans, Richard, Orasan, Constantin
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Target animacy influences gorilla handedness [PDF]

, 2011
We investigated the unimanual actions of a biological family group of twelve western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) using a methodological approach designed to assess behavior within social context from a bottom-up perspective.
Caterina Quaresmini, Forrester, Gillian, Giorgio Vallortigara (121), Giorgio Vallortigara, Leavens, D.A., Caterina Quaresmini (16053296), Forrester, G.S., Quaresmini, C., Vallortigara, G., Gillian S. Forrester, David A. Leavens, Gillian S Forrester (5624042), David Leavens (4460908)   +12 more
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Perceiving Animacy From Deformation and Translation

i-Perception, 2017
In a cartoon, we often receive an animacy impression from a dynamic nonanimate object, such as a sponge or a flour sack, which does not have an animal-like shape.
Takahiro Kawabe
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