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Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper presents a close‐hearing analysis of Forest 404, a transmedial audio drama that was released to BBC Sounds in 2019. Despite the drama's eco‐dystopian critique of teleological ‘progress’ narratives (that enable and perpetuate the destruction of the natural world), I argue that the series ultimately propagates a sense of inevitability
Matilda Jones
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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What Do Definites Do That Indefinites Definitely Don't? [PDF]
, 2000 This paper investigates how (in)definiteness in word order; more specifically, how it in the ordering of objects in the Mittelfeld of German double-object constructions.
Büring, Daniel
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Bringing the toys to life: Animacy, reference, and anthropomorphism in Toy Story [PDF]
, 2018 In the children’s film Toy Story, toys spring to life when their human owners are away, creating an alternative world of transferred animacy relations signalled by visual and linguistic cues.
Nelson, D, Vihman, V-A
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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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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Cognitive Networks for Knowledge Modeling: A Gentle Introduction for Data‐ and Cognitive Scientists
WIREs Cognitive Science, Volume 17, Issue 2, March/April 2026.Cognitive network science helps organize associative knowledge—that is, the connections between concepts. These connections play a key role in cognitive processes such as language understanding and context interpretation, even though they are not obvious in language use.
Edith Haim, Massimo Stella
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When Couches Have Eyes: The Effect of Visual Context on Children's Reference Processing
Frontiers in Communication, 2020 We examined the effects of semantic and visual cues to animacy on children's and adults' interpretation of ambiguous pronouns, using the visual world paradigm.
Rebecca Cooper-Cunningham +3 more
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Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This account explores how circumstances verging on the other‐worldly alter human perception and consciousness in a fieldwork situation. The case study involves an archaeological field survey team stranded for a time on a remote Lapland mountain.
Aki Hakonen +2 more
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Brain regions that process case: Evidence from basque [PDF]
, 2012 The aim of this event-related fMRI study was to investigate the cortical networks involved in case processing, an operation that is crucial to language comprehension yet whose neural underpinnings are not well-understood.
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