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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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionAnimacy distinguishes living (animate) things from non-living (inanimate) things. People tend to devote attention and processing to living over nonliving things, resulting in a privileged status for animate concepts in human cognition.
Michael J. Serra, Carlee M. DeYoung
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The Interplay of Animacy and Thematic Role in Structural Persistence [PDF]
Models of human sentence production often propose a clear distinction between syntactic and semantic processes. We examined this assumption by investigating the interaction between animacy and thematic roles in active-passive structural priming.
Fukumura, Kumiko
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
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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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The nature of the animacy organization in human ventral temporal cortex
eLife, 2019 The principles underlying the animacy organization of the ventral temporal cortex (VTC) remain hotly debated, with recent evidence pointing to an animacy continuum rather than a dichotomy. What drives this continuum?
Sushrut Thorat +2 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
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Animacy effects extend to working memory: results from serial order recall tasks
, 2019 Words that represent animate entities (e.g., dog) are recalled from long-term memory more accurately than words representing inanimate entities (e.g., pan). In this research, we examined whether the animacy effect extends to working memory (WM).
Murphy, Karen +2 more
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In the absence of animacy: superordinate category structure affects subordinate label verification.
PLoS ONE, 2013 Theoretical accounts as well as behavioral studies reporting animacy effects offer inconsistent and sometimes contradictory results. A possible explanation for these inconsistencies may be inadvertent biases in the stimuli selected for test - with ...
Olivera Ilic, Vanja Kovic, Suzy J Styles
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Objects of Affection: Deathly Encounters With Taxidermy, Stuffed Toys and Atmospheres
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores how children and young people relate to death through affective atmospheres and embodied, imaginative encounters with taxidermy and stuffed toy animals. Using arts‐based research (ABR), we explore how death, affective atmospheres, empathy and materiality entangle during multispecies relations.
Rachel Sinquefield‐Kangas +2 more
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