{"id":14211,"date":"2022-09-23T13:13:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T17:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=14211"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:36:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:36:55","slug":"colloquium-animacy-in-language-and-cognition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2022\/colloquium-animacy-in-language-and-cognition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium: Animacy in language and cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Colloquium: Animacy in language and cognition\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/colloquium-animacy-in-language-and-cognition\/\">Colloquium: Animacy in language and cognition &#8211; Department of Cognitive Science (carleton.ca)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Wednesday, 28 September 2022 &#8211; 03:00PM-04:30PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: &nbsp;Animacy in language and cognition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Location:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>DT 2203<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speaker:&nbsp;<\/strong>Ida Toivonen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Biological animacy distinguishes between animate (living) and inanimate (non-living) entities. However, there is ample&nbsp;evidence from natural language that humans conceptualize entities according to a more complex animacy hierarchy, where humans,&nbsp;animals, 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&nbsp;are not part of linguistic knowledge but rather an indirect effect of our construal of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ida Toivonen is a professor at Carleton University who works on language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colloquium: Animacy in language and cognition &#8211; Department of Cognitive Science (carleton.ca) Date: Wednesday, 28 September 2022 &#8211; 03:00PM-04:30PM Title: &nbsp;Animacy in language and cognition Location:&nbsp;&nbsp;DT 2203 Speaker:&nbsp;Ida Toivonen Abstract: &nbsp;Biological animacy distinguishes between animate (living) and inanimate (non-living) entities. 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