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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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Quantifying semantic animacy in Persian

, 2018
In a direct replication of Radanović et al.’s (2016) work, the typical goal of this paper is to reproduce their experimental results by comparing the distribution of animacy in two languages coming from different language branches within the Indo ...
Mojtahed Sarabi, R.
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Lexical case marking affects the processing of animacy in simple verbs, but not particle verbs: Evidence from event-related potentials

Glossa, 2018
In case-marking languages like German, nonstandard nominative-dative verbs lead to enhanced processing costs. So far, it is unclear if these case-marking effects reflect the special syntax or semantics of nominative-dative verbs.
Anna Czypionka, Carsten Eulitz
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Living Machines atypical animacy dataset

, 2020
Atypical animacy detection dataset, based on nineteenth-century sentences in English extracted from an open dataset of nineteenth-century books digitized by the British Library (available via https://doi.org/10.21250/db14, British Library Labs, 2014 ...
Wilson, Daniel, Ahnert, Ruth, McDonough, Katherine, Lawrence, Jon, Coll Ardanuy, Mariona, Tolfo, Giorgia, Nanni, Federico, Beelen, Kaspar   +7 more
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Is animacy special? ERP correlates of semantic violations and animacy violations in sentence processing

, 2011
Item does not contain fulltextAnimacy is often conceived as a special semantic feature because of its relevance to thematic and syntactic processing. This study uses event-related brain potentials to investigate whether violations of the expected animacy
Schriefers, Herbert, Jakub M. Szewczyk, Schriefers, H.J., Szewczyk, Jakub, Herbert Schriefers, Szewczyk, J.M.   +5 more
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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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Shifting from animacy to agentivity

, 2018
The target article argues for a need to distinguish between covert and overt (ly marked) shifts in animacy and claims that understanding these shifts allows for “a deeper understanding of animacy and its effects on language” (abstract target article ...
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Primus, Beatrice, Marco García García, Beatrice Primus, Himmelmann, Nikolaus P., García García, Marco   +5 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 morphosyntactic variation [PDF]

, 2014
In this dissertation, I demonstrate that animacy of subject referents strongly conditions verbal morphosyntactic variation in English varieties. Using three quantitative case studies, I investigate copula and subject verb agreement in two English ...
McLaughlin, Brittany Dael
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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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