Is there a natural order for expressing semantic relations?
Is there a natural order for expressing semantic relations?
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DOI：
10.1016/s0010-0285(02)00502-9
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发表时间：
2002-11-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Goldin-Medow, S
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作者：
Gershkoff-Stowe, L;Goldin-Medow, S
所有的语言都在一定程度上依赖词序来表示关系信息。为什么?我们通过探索可能导致对语序依赖的交际和认知因素来解决这个问题。在研究1中。成年人被要求用他们的手而不是他们的月向另一个人描述场景。问题是这种自制的“语言”是否包含顺序一致的手势句子。此外，我们还询问了对顺序的依赖是否会受到三个交际因素的影响（交际伙伴是否被允许给予反馈；要传达的信息是否存在于接受者和手势使用者共享的语境中；手势使用者是否同时扮演手势接受者和手势生产者的角色）。我们找到了。语义元素的顺序不仅在各种交际情境中都是一致的，而且在所有语境中都出现了相同的非英语顺序。研究2探讨了是否只有当宠物儿子试图与另一个人分享信息时，这种非英语顺序才会出现。成年人被要求用画在透明片上的图片重建非交流环境中的场景。成年人以一致的顺序拿起图片进行重建，这个顺序与研究1中发现的非英语顺序相同。在非交际语境中发现一致的语序模式表明，语序并不仅仅是由与他人交流信息的需求所驱动的。但可能反映了人类思维的一个更普遍的特性。(C) 2002 Elsevier Science （USA）。版权所有。
All languages rely to sonic extent on word order to signal relational information. Why? We address this question by exploring communicative and cognitive factors that Could lead to a reliance on word order. In Study 1. adults were asked to describe scenes to another using their hands and not their months. The question was whether this home-made "language" would contain gesture sentences with consistent order. In addition, we asked whether reliance on order would be influenced by three communicative factors (whether the communication partner is permitted to give feedback; whether the information to be communicated is present in the context that recipient and gesturer share: whether the gesturer assumes the role of gesture receiver as well as gesture producer). We found that. not only was consistent ordering of semantic elements robust across the range of communication situations, but the same non-English order appeared in all contexts. Study 2 explored whether this non-English order is found only when a pet-son attempts to share information with another. Adults were asked to reconstruct scenes in a non-communicative context using pictures drawn on transparencies. The adults picked up the pictures for their reconstructions in a consistent order, and that order was the same non-English order found in Study 1. Finding consistent ordering patterns in a non-communicative context suggests that word order is not driven solely by the demands of communicating information to another. but may reflect a more general property of human thought. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.