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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Past research suggests that Working Memory plays a role in determining relative clause attachment bias. Disambiguation preferences may further depend on Processing Speed and explicit memory demands in linguistic tasks. Given that Working Memory and Processing Speed decline with age, older adults offer a way of investigating the factors ...
Willem S. van Boxtel, Laurel A. Lawyer
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An Introduction to Rational Constructivism in Cognitive Development
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Rational constructivism is a contemporary theory of cognitive development. It proposes that children generate, tweak, and radically revise theories, beliefs, and representations by integrating evidence with existing knowledge via probabilistic inferential learning mechanisms.
Rebekah A. Gelpi +3 more
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Animacy and threat in recognition memory [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 2020 Animate items are better remembered than inanimate items, suggesting that human memory has evolved to prioritize information related to survival. The proximate mechanisms for the animacy effect are not yet known, but one possibility is that animate items are more likely to capture attention, which then leads to better memory for those items.
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Perception of animacy in dogs and humans [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2017 Humans have a tendency to perceive inanimate objects as animate based on simple motion cues. Although animacy is considered as a complex cognitive property, this recognition seems to be spontaneous. Researchers have found that young human infants discriminate between dependent and independent movement patterns.
Judit Abdai +4 more
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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
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Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming
Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1707-1719, September 2026.ABSTRACT This paper enacts a feminist‐posthumanist reimagining of gender as ontological disturbance, using magical realism not as metaphor but as epistemological method. Rejecting representational logics and the managerial rationalities of organizational realism, we advance gender not as identity or role but as spectral interference—a transversal ...
Max Ganzin, Diana Ivanycheva
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Building on Word Animacy to Determine Coreference Chain Animacy in Cultural Narratives
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2017 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 understanding.
Labiba Jahan +2 more
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Silent gesture is increasingly used in linguistics to investigate questions that are difficult or impossible to address using natural language data alone, including issues of language emergence, word order, grammatical categorisation, and iconicity. However, the interpretation of silent‐gesture findings remains methodologically complex.
Oksana Tkachman
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Animacy encoding in English [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2004 ACL Workshop on Discourse Annotation - DiscAnnotation '04, 2004 We report on two recent medium-scale initiatives annotating present day English corpora for animacy distinctions. We discuss the relevance of animacy for computational linguistics, specifically generation, the annotation categories used in the two studies and the interannotator reliability for one of the studies.
Annie Zaenen +7 more
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Evidence of Animacy Effects in Novel Word Learning via Fast Mapping and Explicit Encoding in Adults
Journal of Indian Speech Language & Hearing Association, 2020 Introduction Animacy effects refer to the processing advantage of animate concepts over inanimate concepts, and this effect has been studied using episodic memory tasks. However, animacy effects in the context of novel word learning, specifically through
Mohan P. Manju +2 more
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