ANIMACY DISTINCTIONS ARISE FROM ITERATED LEARNING

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 experiment investigating the effect of animacy on langu

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Understanding plant community responses to combinations of biotic and abiotic factors in different phases of the plant growth cycle.

Understanding plant community responses to combinations of biotic and abiotic factors is critical for predicting ecosystem response to environmental change.However, studies of plant community regulation have seldom considered how responses to such factors vary with the different phases of the plant growth cycle.To address this deficit we studied an

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