The at-issue status of ideophones: An experimental approach
The at-issue status of ideophones: An experimental approach
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录音机的争议状态：一种实验方法
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2022
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Theresa Stender
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K. Barnes;Cornelia Ebert;R. Hörnig;Theresa Stender
形式语言学通常认为口语中的形式-意义关系是任意的，而不是象似的。英语中的spish-splash和helter-critter等形意词长期以来被认为是口语中词汇化象似性的少数例子之一，也是任意性一般规则的例外。然而，最近，研究者开始更仔细地研究口语中的象似性。以下工作，建立了默认的非问题状态的标志性的共同语音手势，在这里，我们提出了我们认为是第一个实验工作的问题状态的ideophones。在上下文匹配任务中，德语使用者在不匹配条件下对含有中间表意字的目标句子的评价比含有状语的目标句子更有利。我们假设，说话人判断目标句与语篇语境的匹配程度，应该更容易受到问题材料引起的不匹配的影响。我们认为，扬声器的评级表明，中间中间的意符是没有问题的。然而，我们强调的情况下，表意文字似乎有一个在问题的解释，我们提出了初步的分析。总的来说，我们的研究结果提供了一个起点，了解的实用地位的ideophones和提供证据，标志性的，但常规的语言项目，发生在口语模态，也可以有助于不存在问题的信息，作为标志性的手势在视觉模态。
Formal linguistics generally assumes that form-meaning relations in spoken language are arbitrary and not iconic. Ideophones, such as the English splish-splash and helter-skelter, have long been considered one of the few examples of lexicalised iconicity in spoken language and exceptions to the general rule of arbitrariness. Recently, however, researchers have begun to examine iconicity in spoken language more closely. Following work which established the default not-at-issue status of iconic co-speech gestures, here we present what we believe to be the first experimental work on the at-issue status of ideophones. In sentence-context matching tasks, German speakers rated target sentences containing sentence-medial ideophones more favourably in mismatching conditions than those containing adverbials. We presume that speaker judgements’ concerning how well target sentences match discourse contexts should be more impaired by mismatches induced by at-issue material than those induced by not at-issue material. We argue that speakers’ ratings indicate that sentence-medial ideophones are not at-issue. We do, however, highlight cases where ideophones appear to have an at-issue interpretation, for which we propose an initial analysis. Overall, our results provide a starting point for understanding the pragmatic status of ideophones and provide evidence that iconic, but conventionalised linguistic items, which occur in the spoken modality, can also contribute not-at-issue information as iconic gestures do in the visual modality.