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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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The effects of animacy in the choice of referring expression
, 2011 Theories of reference assume that the referent's salience in the discourse context affects the choice between pronouns and definite noun phrases or names.
van Gompel, Roger +5 more
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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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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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Fraying the Edges of Literacies: What Do Post‐Philosophies Produce for Early Childhood Literacies?
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, July/August/September 2026.Paper skateboard park and worms' house; is it literacy? We invite a discussion on how post‐philosophies have, and could, open up possibilities for thinking about early literacies. By fraying the edges of certainty and legitimacy around what counts as literacy and who is viewed as literate (according to humanist logics), post‐philosophical concepts ...
Abigail Hackett, Candace R. Kuby
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“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing
Science Education, Volume 110, Issue 4, Page 1018-1042, July 2026.ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
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Living Machines: A study of atypical animacy [PDF]
, 2020 13 pages, 2 figures13 pages, 2 figures13 pages, 2 figuresThis paper proposes a new approach to animacy detection, the task of determining whether an entity is represented as animate in a text.
Lawrence, J +29 more
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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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Pronoun Resolution in Turkish: The Interplay of Referential Form, Word Order, and Implicit Causality
Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 6, June 2026.Abstract Pronouns are a ubiquitous part of discourse, but unusual in that their meaning is almost entirely determined by context. While early theorists hoped to explain pronouns based on a small number of simple principles, the last half‐century of research has revealed a cornucopia of influences at the syntactic, semantic, discourse, and pragmatic ...
Duygu Sarısoy +2 more
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