Résultats de la recherche - animacy
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The category of animacy and its acquisition in the grammars of Russian and Spanish
Publié 2018-06-01Sujets: “…animacy…”The category of animacy is the expression in grammar of the opposition between animate and inanimate beings. This category does not grammaticalize in every language and, even if it does, it almost never grammaticalizes in the same way. To show this, I will analyze here the animacy effects in two lan...
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The influence of eye position on the animacy impression of a cube-shaped robot in motion
Publié 2025-03-01“…Human observers can sometimes attribute animacy or agency to non-living objects, such as robots, perceiving them as if they were alive. …”Human observers can sometimes attribute animacy or agency to non-living objects, such as robots, perceiving them as if they were alive. In particular, the movement pattern of non-living things is a key feature for perceiving life. It is also well known that the pattern of the eyes is also an importa...
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Sound effects have only minor contribution to perceptions of anthropomorphism and animacy of simple animated shapes
Publié 2025-01-01“…Results showed that the sound had a minor impact on anthropomorphism and potency in Study One, but did not impact animacy. Study Two showed no significant effect on anthropomorphism or animacy, but did show an impact on perceived intelligence and perceptions of activity.…”While studies of anthropomorphism have spanned many decades, there is little evidence of the role that sound effects may play. We present two studies into sound's influence on perceptions of anthropomorphism and animacy using simple geometric animated shapes. For the first study, conducted on 1...
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Animate, or Inanimate, That Is the Question for Large Language Models
Publié 2025-06-01Sujets: Accéder au texte intégralThe cognitive core of human beings is closely connected to the concept of animacy, which significantly influences their memory, vision, and complex language comprehension. While animacy is reflected in language through subtle constraints on verbs and adjectives, it is also acquired and honed through...
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Subject-object asymmetries in the processing of European Portuguese cleft structures
Publié 2025-06-01Sujets: Accéder au texte intégralThis study investigates the intervention effects on the processing of standard clefts by adult speakers of European Portuguese, focusing on the semantic feature of animacy. Using a self-paced reading task combined with a picture selection task, we manipulated the extraction types (subject vs. objec...
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Reframing Botanical Blindness and Imperception Through Evolutionary Lenses
Publié 2025-07-01Sujets: “…Animacy…”Abstract In this opinion article, we question the tendency to treat human interactions with plants as a cognitive deficit through terms such as botanical blindness, botanical imperception, or plant awareness disparity (PAD). Rather than denying the existence of the phenomenon these terms attempt to...
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She, He or It? Is it a Matter of Gender or Something Else? A Look into Children and Teens’ Literature
Publié 2023-12-01“…In the last couple of decades, there have been numerous studies on gender renewal (Unterbeck et al. 2000; Fernández Ordoñez 2009; Fanego et al. 2011; Aikhenvald 2016; Samuel, Cole, and Eacott 2019), all of them stressing the relevance of conceptual categories, such as animacy and individuation, in the transition towards (more) semantic systems. …”In the last couple of decades, there have been numerous studies on gender renewal (Unterbeck et al. 2000; Fernández Ordoñez 2009; Fanego et al. 2011; Aikhenvald 2016; Samuel, Cole, and Eacott 2019), all of them stressing the relevance of conceptual categories, such as animacy and individuation, in t...
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The Acquisition of Subject-Verb Agreement in Typically Developing Children: A Corpus-Driven Analysis
Publié 2025-04-01“…The results indicate that syntactic agreement is acquired earlier, while the integration of semantic features like animacy and humanness emerges later. Conclusions. …”Purpose. This study investigates the acquisition of subject-verb agreement in Jordanian Arabic (JA) in children aged 2.6 to 12 years, aiming to identify the developmental stages and factors influencing this aspect of language acquisition. Methods. The research utilized a corpus of approximately 5...
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