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Context and Animacy Play a Role in Dynamic Decision-Making

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Osman M., Ananiadis-Basias A.
Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation
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2013
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vol. 9
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issue 2
61-78
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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). The present study investigated the following question: Does animacy facilitate decision-making in a dynamic control system? To address this, the present study used a dynamic decision-making task and compared behavior in four different contexts (Abstract, Animate-Social, Inanimate-Social, Inanimate-Non-social). Participants were randomly allocated to one of these contexts, and in each version they were required to learn to manipulate variables in order to bring the dynamic system to a desirable state and maintain it at that level. The findings suggest that it is not animacy per se that facilitates decision-making behavior, but rather the presence of a context. However, animacy made an impact on the type of strategic behavior implemented when interacting with the dynamic system. We argue that context induces general beliefs about causal relationships in dynamic environments that generalize across animate as well as inanimate contexts.
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L2 acquisition of Spanish dative clitics by English and Dutch learners

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Escobar-Álvarez M. Á.
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
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2017
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vol. 7
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issue 3
517-534
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This article examines the second language acquisition (SLA) of Spanish dative clitics in clitic doubling (CLD) structures that are closely related to the double object construction (DOC) in English and Dutch. It also addresses the question of how adult English and Dutch speakers learning L2 Spanish in a formal setting develop knowledge and use of the animacy constraint in the target language, which is different from the first language (L1) counterparts. The role of transfer in acquiring new syntactic structures has been taken into account, where dative clitics appear and animate objects are marked by the dative preposition ‘to.’ New findings are obtained on CLD and the Spanish animacy constraint from a grammaticality judgement task (GJT), completed by English and Dutch learners at B1 and B2 CEFR levels. The difficulties learners experienced were not always due to negative L1 transfer, but also related to the complexity of the argument structure where the clitic is inserted. This has clear implications for the teaching of pronominal elements which are closely related to different syntactic configurations in Spanish.
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Frequency and morphological behaviour of nouns in Czech and Russian

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Mačutek J., Koščová M., Kelih E., Čech R.
Bohemistyka
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2023
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issue 1
109-117
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Declensional morphology of nouns in Czech and Russian is investigated and compared. It is shown that, in general, word forms which are more similar to their lemmas are preferred, but there are differences between animate and inanimate nouns and also among grammatical genders. The frequency distribution of grammatical cases is also studied, with animacy and gender being again important factors.
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Full agreement with coordinate subjects in Polish: Gender resolution rules revisited

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Prażmowska A.
Roczniki Humanistyczne
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2016
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vol. 64
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issue 11: Anglica
71-86
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The aim of the paper is to propose a set of revised gender resolution rules for Polish, based on an interplay between gender and animacy features of conjuncts, which makes a coordinate subject eligible for a given variant of gender agreement with the predicate. Specifically, it is argued that both gender and animacy features of conjuncts can make a coordinate subject eligible for virile or non-virile agreement, or both. The resolution is achieved by the application of a set of four rules capitalising on certain semantic features of conjuncts and the interaction between them within a coordinate subject. The application of the rules restricts agreement possibilities to either virile or non-virile agreement, or makes both possibilities available for a given coordinate subject. In consequence, the proposed revised gender resolution rules have a capacity to capture data that are problematic under the traditional resolution rules for Polish.
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Celem niniejszego artykułu jest przedstawienie zbioru nowych reguł dotyczących uzgodnienia rodzaju podmiotu szeregowego z formą orzeczenia czasownikowego w języku polskim, opartych na wzajemnych oddziaływaniach wartości kategorii rodzaju i żywotności członów podmiotu, które odpowiadają za uzgodnienie danego podmiotu z określoną formą orzeczenia. Według przedstawionej analizy zarówno cechy kategorii rodzaju jak i kategorii żywotności decydują o uzgodnieniu podmiotu szeregowego z orzeczeniem w formie męskoosobowej lub niemęskoosobowej, bądź umożliwiają uzgodnienie podmiotu z obiema tymi formami orzeczenia, co jest efektem zastosowania czterech zaproponowanych reguł i interakcji pomiędzy nimi. W rezultacie omawiany zbiór nowych reguł oferuje możliwość stworzenia bardziej kompleksowego opisu i objaśnienia danych, które stanowią problem w ujęciu tradycyjnych reguł uzgodnienia podmiotu szeregowego z orzeczeniem, głównie z uwagi na uwzględnienie w prezentowanej analizie warunków występowania oboczności w badanych kontekstach w języku polskim.
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Gender in culture and gender in language. On translation of the novel Lubiewo by Michał Witkowski into German and Swedish

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Petersson B. G.
Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia
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2011
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vol. 12
57-70
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