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The Red Blanket: A dance of animacy [PDF]

Global Studies of Childhood, 2019
This article will focus in on one short play spell in the outdoor space of a classroom of 2-year-olds. Using the medium of video as data, it explores the way that children’s bodies are caught up in what Ingold calls a ‘dance of animacy’, when bodies and matter encounter each other.
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Constraints in contact: Animacy in English and Afrikaans genitive variation – a cross-linguistic perspective

Glossa, 2017
This paper builds on the observation that the animacy effects we find in English genitive variation are part of a larger cross-linguistic pattern as reflected in possession splits based on animacy (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2001, 2002; Stolz et al.
Anette Rosenbach
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NP Animacy Identification for Anaphora Resolution

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2007
In anaphora resolution for English, animacy identification can play an integral role in the application of agreement restrictions between pronouns and candidates, and as a result, can improve the accuracy of anaphora resolution systems. In this paper, two methods for animacy identification are proposed and evaluated using intrinsic and extrinsic ...
Constantin Orasan, Richard Evans 0002
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The language of an inanimate narrator

Open Linguistics, 2018
We show by means of a corpus study that the language used by the inanimate first person narrator in the novel Specht en zoon deviates from what we would expect on the basis of the fact that the narrator is inanimate, but at the same time also differs ...
Trompenaars Thijs, Hogeweg Lotte, Stoop Wessel, de Hoop Helen   +3 more
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Seeing life in the teeming world: animacy perception in arthropods

Frontiers in Psychology
The term “animacy perception” describes the ability of animals to detect cues that indicate whether a particular object in the environment is alive or not.
Massimo De Agrò, Hiruni Samadi Galpayage Dona, Giorgio Vallortigara   +2 more
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Wind’s Animacies

Media+Environment
This is an article about wind, dust, and their relations to life. It is a meditation on the liveliness of wind and airborne particles as they are experienced on the ground; in cultural texts including film, poetry, and oral history; and in the medium of satellite imagery.
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Context and Animacy Play a Role in Dynamic Decision-Making

Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation, 2013
Perception, judgment, and reasoning are all processes that are sensitive to cues to animacy (i.e. the presence of signals that indicate an object behaves as if it has intentions and internal goals).
Magda Osman, Alexandros Ananiadis-Basias
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Literacy overrides effects of animacy: A picture-naming study with pre-literate German children and adult speakers of German and Arabic.

PLoS ONE
Animacy plays a key role for human cognition, which is also reflected in the way humans process language. However, while experiments on sentence processing show reliable effects of animacy on word order and grammatical function assignment, effects of ...
Sarah Dolscheid, Judith Schlenter, Martina Penke   +2 more
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Animacy processing by distributed and interconnected networks in the temporal cortex of monkeys

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Animacy perception, the ability to discern living from non-living entities, is crucial for survival and social interaction, as it includes recognizing abstract concepts such as movement, purpose, and intentions.
Rizal Ichwansyah, Rizal Ichwansyah, Keigo Onda, Keigo Onda, Jun Egawa, Takeshi Matsuo, Takafumi Suzuki, Toshiyuki Someya, Isao Hasegawa, Keisuke Kawasaki   +9 more
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Animacy in Persian language: Animacy norms for 401 Persian words

Journal of Neurodevelopmental Cognition, 2023
Firouze Mahjoubnavaz, Setareh Mokhtari
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