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19 lip 2019 · Cross-linguistic evidence attests to a range of linguistic phenomena conditioned by animacy, with complex effects requiring (a) subtler distinctions than a binary contrast [± animate] and (b)...
Cross-linguistic evidence attests to a range of linguistic phenomena conditioned by animacy, with complex effects requiring (a) subtler distinctions than a binary contrast [± animate] and (b) more sophisticated analyses than mapping higher animacy to higher grammatical role.
animate referents as patients, expressed by transitive objects, can be exploited for effective communication. Hence, non-prototypical relations and constituent order are often signalled through overt marking: e.g. animate objects are marked differentially from the more prototypical, unmarked inanimate objects in Spanish and other languages (Boss...
30 lis 2021 · In the study, studies on the relationships among language, language acquisition, listening and grammar were reviewed and the acquisition of grammar rules during language and listening...
1 sty 2019 · This work examines the scenario in which typically inanimate objects, specifically machines, are given animate attributes and creates the first dataset for atypical animacy detection, based on nineteenth-century sentences in English with machines represented as either animate or inanimate.
17 kwi 2024 · 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 animacy on conjoined noun phrases (e.g., fish and shoe vs. shoe and fish) have yielded ...
Introduction: What Is the Animate-Inanimate Distinction and Why Is It Important? What Knowledge About Animacy Is Present in Infancy? What Are the Developmental Paths by Which this Knowledge Becomes Enriched Over Time?
