Revisiting the Suffixing Preference: Native-Language Affixation Patterns Influence Perception of Sequences.
Revisiting the Suffixing Preference: Native-Language Affixation Patterns Influence Perception of Sequences.
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DOI：
10.1177/0956797620931108
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发表时间：
2020-09
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Culbertson J
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作者：
Martin A;Culbertson J
世界语言之间的相似性可能是由人类认知或感知的普遍特征驱动的。例如，在许多语言中，复杂的单词是通过在简单单词的末尾添加后缀而形成的，但添加前缀的情况要少见得多：为什么会这样呢？先前的研究表明，这是由于一种领域普遍的感知偏差：末端不同的序列被认为比开始不同的序列更相似。然而，正如心理语言学研究中典型的那样，证据只来自一个人群——说英语的人——他们对后缀有丰富的经验。在这里，我们通过调查k<s:1>塔拉卡语（肯尼亚农村使用的一种带有大量前缀的班图语）使用者的感知相似性判断，为这一说法提供了一个更有力的测试。我们发现说kk<s:1>塔拉卡语的人（N = 72）与说英语的人（N = 51）表现出相反的判断，这就提出了一个问题，即人类感知的普遍偏见是否可以解释世界语言对后缀的偏好。
Similarities among the world’s languages may be driven by universal features of human cognition or perception. For example, in many languages, complex words are formed by adding suffixes to the ends of simpler words, but adding prefixes is much less common: Why might this be? Previous research suggests this is due to a domain-general perceptual bias: Sequences differing at their ends are perceived as more similar to each other than sequences differing at their beginnings. However, as is typical in psycholinguistic research, the evidence comes exclusively from one population—English speakers—who have extensive experience with suffixing. Here, we provided a much stronger test of this claim by investigating perceptual-similarity judgments in speakers of Kîîtharaka, a heavily prefixing Bantu language spoken in rural Kenya. We found that Kîîtharaka speakers (N = 72) showed the opposite judgments to English speakers (N = 51), which calls into question whether a universal bias in human perception can explain the suffixing preference in the world’s languages.
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影响因子：
3.4
作者：
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通讯作者：
MARSLENWILSON, WD
影响因子：
4.3
作者：
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通讯作者：
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影响因子：
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作者：
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通讯作者：
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影响因子：
2.1
作者：
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通讯作者：
Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.
DOI：
10.1016/s0022-5371(66)80040-3
发表时间：
1966-01-01
期刊：
JOURNAL OF VERBAL LEARNING AND VERBAL BEHAVIOR
影响因子：
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作者：
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通讯作者：
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