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Two routes to actorhood: lexicalized potency to act and identification of the actor role
2015
Frontiers in Psychology
The inference of causality is a crucial cognitive ability and language processing is no exception: recent research suggests that, across different languages, the human language comprehension system attempts to identify the primary causer of the state of affairs described (the "actor") quickly and unambiguously (Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Schlesewsky, 2009) . This identification can take place verb-independently based on certain prominence cues (e.g., case, word order, animacy). Here, we present
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00001
pmid:25688217
pmcid:PMC4311632
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