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Animate or Inanimate: How Does Animacy Affect Relative Clauses Production for Indonesian and Foreign Learners

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, Fida Pangesti, Petrus Ari Santoso, Ho Ngoc Hieu   +3 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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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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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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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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The animacy advantage in memory occurs under self-paced study conditions, but participants’ metacognitive beliefs can deter it

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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Event-related brain potential evidence for animacy processing asymmetries during sentence comprehension

, 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.
Carreiras, M., Martin, A., Martin, Andrea E, Nieuwland, M., Nieuwland, Mante S, Carreiras, Manuel   +5 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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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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