Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1
Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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When facial expressions do and do not signal minds: the role of face inversion, expression dynamism, and emotion type [PDF]
Recent research has linked facial expressions to mind perception. Specifically, Bowling and Banissy (2017) found that ambiguous doll-human morphs were judged as more likely to have a mind when smiling.
Hugenberg, Kurt +3 more
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Pursuit tracks chase: exploring the role of eye movements in the detection of chasing [PDF]
We explore the role of eye movements in a chase detection task. Unlike the previous studies, which focused on overall performance as indicated by response speed and chase detection accuracy, we decompose the search process into gaze events such as smooth
Matúš Šimkovic, Birgit Träuble
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Lessons on touch: Caring for pesticide exposure in toxic geographies
This article studies touch as a tool to sense and care for chronic pesticide exposure. It uncovers how agricultural communities come in contact with toxic chemicals and learn to live within toxic geographies as well as possible. Such understandings can cultivate more compassionate and liveable worlds.
Mayra Sánchez Barba
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The method of loci in the context of psychological research: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
Abstract This systematic review and meta‐analysis aimed to evaluate (1) the effectiveness of the method of loci (MoL) in enhancing recall in adults, (2) its underlying cognitive mechanisms, and (3) its neurobiological correlates. Studies on adult populations were included from multiple databases.
Jan Ondřej
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Event Processing through naming: Investigating event focus in two people with aphasia [PDF]
Some people with aphasia may have trouble with verbs because of fundamental difficulties in processing situations in a way that maps readily onto language.
Cairns, D. +3 more
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How voice and helpfulness shape perceptions in human–agent teams
Voice assistants are increasingly prevalent, from personal devices to team environments. This study explores how voice type and contribution quality influence human–agent team performance and perceptions of anthropomorphism, animacy, intelligence, and ...
Samuel Westby +3 more
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Scope of Message Planning: Evidence From Production of Sentences With Heavy Sentence‐Final NPs
Abstract Speaking begins with the generation of a preverbal message. While a common assumption is that the scope of message‐level planning (i.e., the size of message‐level increments) can be more extensive than the scope of sentence‐level planning, it is unclear how much information is typically encoded at the message level in advance of sentence‐level
Agnieszka E. Konopka
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Abstract Worker cooperatives in the gig economy can involve large and heterogeneous memberships, which makes them vulnerable to member opportunism depleting collective resources. External shocks may present another challenge for collective resource management.
Damion Jonathan Bunders, Tine De Moor
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