{"id":14154,"date":"2022-09-08T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?page_id=14154"},"modified":"2022-09-14T16:04:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T20:04:45","slug":"colloquium-animacy-in-language-and-cognition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/colloquium-animacy-in-language-and-cognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium: Animacy in language and cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Wednesday, 28 September 2022 @03:00PM-4:30PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: \u00a0Animacy in language and cognition<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:\u00a0 <\/strong>DT 2203<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong>Ida Toivonen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Biological animacy distinguishes between animate (living) and inanimate (non-living) entities. However, there is ample\u00a0evidence from natural language that humans conceptualize entities according to a more complex animacy hierarchy, where humans,\u00a0animals, inanimate things, and other entities constitute separate levels. In this talk I will provide an overview of cross-linguistic animacy effects. I will also discuss a series of experiments designed to elicit judgements about animacy in English speakers. I conclude that some animacy effects that are evident in natural language are directly encoded in the grammar, whereas other reflections of animacy\u00a0are not part of linguistic knowledge but rather an indirect effect of our construal of the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ida Toivonen is a professor at Carleton University who works on language.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Wednesday, 28 September 2022 @03:00PM-4:30PM Title: \u00a0Animacy in language and cognition Location:\u00a0 DT 2203 Speaker: Ida Toivonen Abstract: \u00a0Biological animacy distinguishes between animate (living) and inanimate (non-living) entities. 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