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    "pk": 49187,
    "title": "Agent Preference in Children: The Role of Animacy and Event Coherence",
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    "abstract": "<p>Thematic roles in language (Agents, Patients) are considered to be hierarchically organized in terms of their salience, and this hierarchy is rooted in their counterparts as event participants in cognition. Here, we examine the relative salience of Agents over Patients in two-participant causative events in Turkish-speaking 3- to 5-year-old children. We also test if this asymmetry is modulated by the animacy of the Patient (human vs. inanimate object) and specific to the presence of a coherent event. In an eye-tracked change detection task, changes to Agents were detected more accurately (and after fewer fixations) than changes to inanimate Patients when there was a coherent event. This asymmetry disappeared when the Patient was animate (for accuracy) and when event coherence was disrupted (for both accuracy and fixations). These findings suggest an interplay of event roles and animacy in Agent preference.</p>",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation",
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        {
            "first_name": "Ceren",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Barış",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Özyeğin University",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Ercenur",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ünal",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics",
            "department": ""
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-02T00:00:00+06:00",
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