Novel vocalizations are understood across cultures.
Novel vocalizations are understood across cultures.
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新颖的发声可以跨文化理解。
DOI：
10.1038/s41598-021-89445-4
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发表时间：
2021-05-12
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Perlman M
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作者：
Ćwiek A;Fuchs S;Draxler C;Asu EL;Dediu D;Hiovain K;Kawahara S;Koutalidis S;Krifka M;Lippus P;Lupyan G;Oh GE;Paul J;Petrone C;Ridouane R;Reiter S;Schümchen N;Szalontai Á;Ünal-Logacev Ö;Zeller J;Winter B;Perlman M
语言交流需要说话者对单词的意思达成一致，但这样一个系统是如何开始的呢？一种解决方案是依靠标志性手势：视觉符号的形式直接类似或暗示其含义，而无需任何先前建立的对应关系。然而，发声是否也起到了类似的作用还存在争议。我们报告了第一个广泛的跨文化研究，调查来自不同语言背景的人是否能够理解一系列意义的新颖发声。在两个理解实验中，我们测试了来自12个语系的28种语言的听者是否能理解说英语的人发出的发音。每种语言的听者都比随机猜测更准确地猜测出每个测试意义的发声所指。我们的研究结果挑战了经常被引用的观点，即发声对标志性表达的潜力有限，表明在没有单词的情况下，人们可以使用发声来传达各种含义。
Linguistic communication requires speakers to mutually agree on the meanings of words, but how does such a system first get off the ground? One solution is to rely on iconic gestures: visual signs whose form directly resembles or otherwise cues their meaning without any previously established correspondence. However, it is debated whether vocalizations could have played a similar role. We report the first extensive cross-cultural study investigating whether people from diverse linguistic backgrounds can understand novel vocalizations for a range of meanings. In two comprehension experiments, we tested whether vocalizations produced by English speakers could be understood by listeners from 28 languages from 12 language families. Listeners from each language were more accurate than chance at guessing the intended referent of the vocalizations for each of the meanings tested. Our findings challenge the often-cited idea that vocalizations have limited potential for iconic representation, demonstrating that in the absence of words people can use vocalizations to communicate a variety of meanings.
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作者：
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通讯作者：
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DOI：
10.1098/rspb.2017.0990
发表时间：
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作者：
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