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Effects of Animacy in Grammar and Cognition: Introduction to Special Issue
Open Linguistics, 2019 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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Automatic animacy classification for Dutch [PDF]
, 2013 We present an automatic animacy classifier for Dutch that can determine the animacy status of nouns - how alive the noun's referent is (human, inanimate, etc.).
Bloem, J. (Jelke),
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Temporal dynamics of animacy categorization in the brain of patients with mild cognitive impairment.
PLoS ONE, 2022 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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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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Animacy perception in aphantasia
, 2022 Perceiving animacy from simple, abstract motion displays (Schultz & Bülthoff, 2013, 2019) is a perceptual cognitive process that might involve mental imagery. As people with aphantasia (aphantasics) are defined as having very little mental imagery or
Martin Reuter +2 more
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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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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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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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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 +2 more
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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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