Spatial inflection and memory for direction in Acazulco Otomí
Spatial inflection and memory for direction in Acazulco Otomí
复制标题
Acazulco Otomá 中的空间变化和方向记忆
DOI:
10.1080/03740463.2018.1433905
复制
发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Boeg Thomsen D
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Boeg Thomsen D
Many languages have developed a specialized tool for coding spatial background aspects of events:associated motionmorphology. This sparsely investigated verb inflection allows speakers to specify that the situation described by a verb takes place against the background of a motion event, as in “sing (while coming)”. Associated-motion systems typically include deictic information, and when verb inflection requires distinctions between motion in different directions, athinking-for-speakingaccount would predict cognitive consequences in the shape of heightened memory for direction. To evaluate this hypothesis, we compare encoding of and memory for direction in an endangered Otopamean language, Acazulco Otomí (Mexico). First, we examine diversity and frequency in the use of associated-motion inflection in pilgrim narratives. Then, we investigate the potential cognitive correlates with a psycholinguistic recognition-memory experiment measuring change-detection performance. Linguistic encoding of background direction was found to support memory for direction, but the sample size was small, and the experiment further indicated that both the associated-motion inflection and its corresponding attention patterns are in a process of dissolution. This echoes findings in Arrernte and Mojeño Trinitario, and we discuss why associated motion might be an especially vulnerable category in language-endangerment contexts.
登录
查看更多内容
DOI:
--
发表时间:
2003
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
B. Malt;S. Sloman;Silvia P. Gennari
通讯作者:
Silvia P. Gennari
DOI:
--
发表时间:
2004
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
Jane Simpson
通讯作者:
Jane Simpson
DOI:
--
发表时间:
2015
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
Laura Winther Balling;Kristian Tangsgaard Hvelplund
通讯作者:
Kristian Tangsgaard Hvelplund
DOI:
--
发表时间:
2016
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
Antoine Guillaume
通讯作者:
Antoine Guillaume
DOI:
--
发表时间:
1979
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
J. Cabrera;Katherine Voigtlander
通讯作者:
Katherine Voigtlander