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Word order variation is partially constrained by syntactic complexity
No full textThis repository includes the executable code and data for the paper - Jing, Yingqi, Paul Widmer & Balthasar Bickel. 2021. Word order variation is partially constrained by syntactic complexity. Cognitive Science . 45, e13056
Word order evolves at similar rates in main and subordinate clauses
No full textThis repository includes the executable code and data for the paper - Jing, Yingqi, Paul Widmer & Balthasar Bickel. 2023. Word order evolves at similar rates in main and subordinate clauses: corpus-based evidence from Indo-European. Diachronica. (to appear)
Word order variation is partially constrained by syntactic complexity
No full textThis repository includes the executable code and data for the paper - Jing, Yingqi, Paul Widmer & Balthasar Bickel. 2021. Word order variation is partially constrained by syntactic complexity. Cognitive Science . 45, e13056
Dependency length minimization and its limits
No full textThis repository includes the executable code and data for the paper - Jing, Yingqi, Damián E Blasi & Balthasar Bickel. 2021. Dependency Length Minimization and Its Limits: A Possible Role for a Probabilistic Version of the Final-over-Final Condition. Language (in press)
The agent preference in visual event apprehension
No full textA central aspect of human experience and communication is understanding events in terms of agent (“doer”) and patient (“undergoer” of action) roles. These event roles are rooted in general cognition and prominently encoded in language, with agents appearing as more salient and preferred over patients. An unresolved question is whether this preference for agents already operates during apprehension, that is, the earliest stage of event processing, and if so, whether the effect persists across different animacy configurations and task demands. Here we contrast event apprehension in two tasks and two languages that encode agents differently; Basque, a language that explicitly case-marks agents (‘ergative’), and Spanish, which does not mark agents. In two brief exposure experiments, native Basqueand Spanish speakers saw pictures for only 300 ms, and subsequently described them or answered probe questions about them. We compared eye fixations and behavioral correlates of event role extraction with Bayesian regression. Agents received more attention and were recognized better across languages and tasks. At the same time, language and task demands affected the attention to agents. Our findings show that a general preference for agents exists in event apprehension, but it can be modulated by task and language demands.
Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Caroline Andrews, Monique Flecken, Itziar Laka, Moritz M. Daum, Martin Meyer, Balthasar Bickel, Sebastian Sauppe; The Agent Preference in Visual Event Apprehension. Open Mind 2023; doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_0008
Managing AUTOTYP Data: Design Principles and Implementation
No full textThis data management use case describes AUTOTYP, a large-scale research program with goals in both quantitative and qualitative typology. It was launched in 1996 by Balthasar Bickel and Johanna Nichols; however, individual data collection began much earlier. AUTOTYP is one of the oldest typological databases still in use and continuously developed for almost twenty-five years. Although the growth of the database proceeded uninterruptedly, several bursts of intensive data collection are associated with a number of research projects.
The aim of this chapter is twofold. In section 2, we outline some fundamental design principles of AUTOTYP. Section 3 illustrates the implementation of these principles with one module of the AUTOTYP database, namely the grammatical relations module. This section will be of use to readers who plan to start their own typological database or who are already working on one. Section 4 is aimed at users and data consumers. It describes how to access the data and provides a brief overview of several use cases and research questions that have been asked with AUTOTYP
The agent preference in visual event apprehension
No full textA central aspect of human experience and communication is understanding events in terms of agent (“doer”) and patient (“undergoer” of action) roles. These event roles are rooted in general cognition and prominently encoded in language, with agents appearing as more salient and preferred over patients. An unresolved question is whether this preference for agents already operates during apprehension, that is, the earliest stage of event processing, and if so, whether the effect persists across different animacy configurations and task demands. Here we contrast event apprehension in two tasks and two languages that encode agents differently; Basque, a language that explicitly case-marks agents (‘ergative’), and Spanish, which does not mark agents. In two brief exposure experiments, native Basqueand Spanish speakers saw pictures for only 300 ms, and subsequently described them or answered probe questions about them. We compared eye fixations and behavioral correlates of event role extraction with Bayesian regression. Agents received more attention and were recognized better across languages and tasks. At the same time, language and task demands affected the attention to agents. Our findings show that a general preference for agents exists in event apprehension, but it can be modulated by task and language demands.
Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Caroline Andrews, Monique Flecken, Itziar Laka, Moritz M. Daum, Martin Meyer, Balthasar Bickel, Sebastian Sauppe; The Agent Preference in Visual Event Apprehension. Open Mind 2023; doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_0008
The agent preference in visual event apprehension
No full textA central aspect of human experience and communication is understanding events in terms of agent (“doer”) and patient (“undergoer” of action) roles. These event roles are rooted in general cognition and prominently encoded in language, with agents appearing as more salient and preferred over patients. An unresolved question is whether this preference for agents already operates during apprehension, that is, the earliest stage of event processing, and if so, whether the effect persists across different animacy configurations and task demands. Here we contrast event apprehension in two tasks and two languages that encode agents differently; Basque, a language that explicitly case-marks agents (‘ergative’), and Spanish, which does not mark agents. In two brief exposure experiments, native Basqueand Spanish speakers saw pictures for only 300 ms, and subsequently described them or answered probe questions about them. We compared eye fixations and behavioral correlates of event role extraction with Bayesian regression. Agents received more attention and were recognized better across languages and tasks. At the same time, language and task demands affected the attention to agents. Our findings show that a general preference for agents exists in event apprehension, but it can be modulated by task and language demands.
Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Caroline Andrews, Monique Flecken, Itziar Laka, Moritz M. Daum, Martin Meyer, Balthasar Bickel, Sebastian Sauppe; The Agent Preference in Visual Event Apprehension. Open Mind 2023; doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_0008
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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