Animacy Distinctions Arise from Iterated Learning
Linguistic animacy reflects a particular construal of biological distinctions encountered in the world, passed through cultural and cognitive filters. This study explores the process by which our construal of animacy becomes encoded in the grammars of human languages. We ran an iterated learning exp...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2018-11-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0027 |