How our scientific perspective of a bay changes when language frames it as a verb—to be a bay—instead of a noun. The following is an excerpt from of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific ...

Research indicates that human memory and cognition exhibit a robust preference for animate over inanimate stimuli. This animacy effect is evident across multiple experimental paradigms, including free ...

In passive sentences such as The cake is being eaten by the clown, the first noun (cake) names the patient (acted-upon) and functions as the subject of the sentence. The present study used passive ...