Finding frequency effects in the usage of NOT collocations in American Sign Language
Finding frequency effects in the usage of NOT collocations in American Sign Language
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寻找美国手语中 NOT 搭配使用的频率效应
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2016
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Erin Wilkinson
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Erin Wilkinson
本研究探讨了美国手语 (ASL) 用户是否对口语中观察到的两个手语组合表现出频率效应。对口语的研究表明，使用频率会影响语法结构的出现；然而，对手语这个问题的调查较少。为了检查 ASL 中的频率效应，本研究分析了语法手动否定语素的模式，该语素被解释为“不与其他符号顺序产生”。研究结果表明，NOT 是由特定符号产生的，这表明 NOT 的语法化程度随着 ASL 搭配中频率的增加而增加。分析表明，一些符号在语音上与否定标记高度融合，提供了新的证据表明这些搭配经历了组块，因为它们是美国手语中示意性的、融合的组成结构。鉴于研究中发现的频率效应，组块似乎是一种独立于模态效应的领域通用认知处理机制。
This study explores whether American Sign Language (ASL) users exhibit frequency effects on two-sign combinations as observed in spoken languages. Studies on spoken languages have demonstrated that frequency of usage influences the emergence of grammatical constructions; however, there has been less investigation of this question for signed languages. To examine frequency effects in ASL, this study analyzes patterns of a grammatical manual negation morpheme glossed as NOT produced sequentially with other signs. Findings reveal that NOT is produced with specific signs, demonstrating that the grammaticalization of NOT increases as frequency does in ASL collocations. The analysis shows that a few signs are highly phonologically fused with the negation marker, providing emerging evidence that these collocations have experienced chunking , as they are schematic, fused constituent structures in ASL. Given frequency effects found in the study, chunking appears to be a domain-general cognitive processing mechanism independent of modality effects.