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Animacy Distinctions Arise from Iterated Learning
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, 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 +2 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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Event-related brain potential evidence for animacy processing asymmetries during sentence comprehension [PDF]
, 2013 The animacy distinction is deeply rooted in the language faculty. A key example is differential object marking, the phenomenon where animate sentential objects receive specific marking.
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Target animacy influences gorilla handedness [PDF]
Animal Cognition, 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. Measures of both the lateralization of unimanual actions (left, right) and the target of the action (animate ...
G. S. Forrester +3 more
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Target animacy influences chimpanzee handedness [PDF]
Animal Cognition, 2012 We employed a bottom-up, quantitative method to investigate great ape handedness. Our previous investigation of gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) demonstrated that contextual information influenced an individual's handedness toward target objects. Specifically, we found a significant right-hand bias for unimanual actions directed toward inanimate ...
Forrester, G. S. +4 more
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How Animacy and Verbal Information Influence V2 Sentence Processing: Evidence from Eye Movements
Open Linguistics, 2019 There exists a clear association between animacy and the grammatical function of transitive subject. The grammar of some languages require the transitive subject to be high in animacy, or at least higher than the object.
de Swart Peter, van Bergen Geertje
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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 +4 more
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A typology of northwestern Bantu gender systems
Linguistics, 2022 Northwestern Bantu is the most linguistically diverse area of the Bantu-speaking world. Several unusual grammatical gender systems are reported for this area, but there has been a lack of comprehensive comparative studies.
Di Garbo Francesca, Verkerk Annemarie
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Humans' Perception of a Robot Moving Using a Slow in and Slow Out Velocity Profile [PDF]
, 2019 © 2019 IEEE - All rights reservedHumans need to understand and trust the robots they are working with. We hypothesize that how a robot moves can impact people’s perception and their trust.
Amirabdollahian, Farshid +3 more
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