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The influence of animacy on perspective-taking and word order during language production ...
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To what extent does race and gender influence perceptions of agency? ...
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Does mention order influence perceptions of agency in conjoined phrases? ...
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In this study, we are interested in how the placement of a word in a particular thematic role frames the interpretation of its meaning. Firstly, we question if mention order signifies grammatical agent. On witnessing an event of dancing in which Tom and Jerry are participating, a speaker might describe this event as Tom and Jerry are dancing, or Jerry and Tom are dancing. We ask how this framing impacts the way in which a listener construes Tom and Jerry in this situation. To do so, we will show participants conjoined symmetrical predicates, e.g. are dancing with each other (“symmetrical” because they are semantically similar with the order or names switched, and the inclusion of “each other” has been suggested to increase the perceived symmetry of the phrase, Gleitman, Gleitman, Miller, & Ostrin, 1996) and we will measure if participants show a tendency to construe the first-mentioned figure as more agentive (the person doing the action to the other person) than the second-mentioned figure, due to its ...
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Agency; Cognitive Psychology; FOS Languages and literature; FOS Psychology; Linguistics; Mention order; Psycholinguistics; Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics; Psychology; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Syntax
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URL: https://osf.io/zp5d4/
https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/zp5d4
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Mention order in passive sentences – the effect of race and gender on perspective-taking ...
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Using narrative to manipulate perceived mind and word order during language production ...
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