Psycholinguistic mechanisms of classifier processing in sign language.
Psycholinguistic mechanisms of classifier processing in sign language.
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手语量词加工的心理语言学机制。
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10.1037/xlm0000958
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2021-06
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Roehm D
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作者:
Krebs J;Malaia E;Wilbur RB;Roehm D
Non-signers viewing sign language are sometimes able to guess the meaning of signs by relying on the overt connection between form and meaning, or iconicity (cf.). One word class in sign languages that appears to be highly iconic, is classifiers: verb-like signs that can refer to location change, or handling. Classifier use and meaning is governed by linguistic rules, yet, in comparison with lexical verb signs, classifiers are highly variable in their morpho-phonology (variety of potential handshapes and motion direction within the sign). These open-class linguistic items in sign languages prompt the question about the mechanisms of their processing: are they part of gestural-semiotic system (processed like the gestures of non-signers), or are they processed as linguistic verbs? To examine the psychological mechanisms of classifier comprehension, we recorded EEG of signers, who watched videos of signed sentences with classifiers. We manipulated sentence word order of the stimuli (Subject-Object-Verb; SOV vs. Object-Subject-Verb; OSV), contrasting the two conditions which, according to different processing hypotheses, should incur increased processing costs for OSV orders. As previously reported for lexical signs, we observed an N400 effect for OSV compared to SOV reflecting increased cognitive load for linguistic processing. These findings support the hypothesis that classifiers are a linguistic part of speech in sign language, extending current understanding of processing mechanisms at the interface of linguistic form and meaning.
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Grabowski TJ
DOI:
10.1080/01690965.2010.542671
发表时间:
2011-01-01
期刊:
LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES
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作者:
Baggio, Giosue;Hagoort, Peter
通讯作者:
Hagoort, Peter