Nadia M Bajwa, Noelle Junod Perron, Olivia Braillard, Sophia Achab, Patricia Hudelson, Melissa Dominicé Dao, Robin Lüchinger, Sanae Mazouri-Karker
Has telemedicine come to fruition? Parents' and pediatricians' perceptions and preferences regarding telemedicine
Pediatric research
animacy plays key role human cognition also reflected way humans process language however experiments sentence processing show reliable effects animacy word order grammatical function assignment effects animacy conjoined noun phrases eg fish shoe vs shoe fish yielded inconsistent results present study tested possibility effects animacy outranked reading writing habits examined adult speakers german lefttoright script speakers arabic righttoleft script well german preschool children yet know read write participants tested picture naming task presented animate inanimate entity next one another half trials animate entity located left half located right side screen found adult german arabic speakers differed order naming whereas german speakers much likely mention animate entity first presented left right reverse tendency observed speakers arabic thus literate adults ordering conjoined noun phrases influenced reading writing habits rather animacy status entity contrast preliterate children preferred start utterances animate entity regardless position suggesting effects animacy adults overwritten effects literacy