An Introduction to Embodied Cognitive Phonology: Claw-5 Hand-shape Distribution in ASL and Libras
An Introduction to Embodied Cognitive Phonology: Claw-5 Hand-shape Distribution in ASL and Libras
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具身认知音韵学简介：美国手语和天秤座的 Claw-5 手形分布
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发表时间：
2017
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通讯作者：
C. Occhino
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作者：
C. Occhino
一个世纪以来，符号的任意性一直占据着语言学理论的中心位置，但对这一基本原则的反证却越来越多。最近对口语的跨语言研究表明，与纯粹任意的语音内容分布相反，语言往往表现出系统和规则的语音和亚语音模式的形式-意义映射。到目前为止，还没有对手语进行这种分布趋势的研究。在对美国手语(ASL)和巴西手语(Langua Brasileira De Sinais)中音素分布的调查中，提取了爪形手形的表征，并分析了该手形是否对该手势的整体意义有贡献。数据表明，爪形手形的分布并不是随机分布在整个词汇中，而是围绕着六种形式-意义模式：凸凹型、单一元素、非紧凑型、手到手、触摸和连锁。有趣的是，特征层面的理据被发现是映射的来源。这些发现被认为是在一个新的认知框架内被考虑的，以更好地理解亚语素单位如何以及为什么发展和维持有动机的形式-意义映射。本文提出的认知语音学模型建立在认知和基于使用的方法之上，但结合了体现的理论来解决爪子-5映射的来源。具身认知音位学提供了一个统一的框架，用于理解不同情态在语音模式和组织上的感知差异。语言内部和语言外部的动机来源都有助于形式-意义映射的出现。任意性被认为只是语音内容出现和图案化过程中的一种可能的结果，并作为各种复杂程度的语言单位的合法状态与理据并存。重要的是，因为语言是动态的，这些状态不是固定的，而是不断变化的，随着语言使用者随着时间的推移重新发明和重新解释形式和意义。
While the arbitrariness of the sign has occupied a central space in linguistic theory for a century, counter-evidence to this basic tenet has been mounting. Recent findings from cross-linguistic studies on spoken languages have suggested that, contrary to purely arbitrary distributions of phonological content, languages often exhibit systematic and regular phonological and sub-phonological patterns of form-meaning mappings. To date, studies of distributional tendencies of this kind have not been conducted for signed languages. In an investigation of phoneme distribution in American Sign Language (ASL) and Lingua Brasileira de Sinais (Libras), tokens of the claw-5 handshape were extracted and analyzed for whether the handshape contributed to the overall meaning of the sign. The data suggests that distribution of the claw-5 handshape is not randomly distributed across the lexicon, but clusters around six form-meaning patterns: convex-concave, Unitary-elements, non-compact matter, hand-as-hand, touch, and interlocking. Interestingly, feature-level motivations were uncovered as the source of the mappings These findings are considered within a new cognitive framework to better understand how and why sub-morphemic units develop and maintain motivated form-meaning mappings. The model proposed here, Embodied Cognitive Phonology, builds on cognitive and usage-based approaches but incorporates theories of embodiment to address the source of the claw-5 mappings. Embodied Cognitive Phonology provides a unifying framework for understanding the perceived differences in phonological patterning and organization across the modalities. Both language-internal and language-external sources of motivation contribute to the emergence of form-meaning mappings. Arbitrariness is argued to be but one possible outcome from the process of emergence and schematization of phonological content, and exists alongside motivation as a legitimate state of linguistic units of all sizes of complexity. Importantly, because language is dynamic, these states are not fixed, but are in continuous flux, as language users reinvent and reinterpret form and meaning over time.
DOI：
10.1037/a0014547
发表时间：
2009-03
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2.6
作者：
Thompson, Robin L.;Vinson, David P.;Vigliocco, Gabriella
通讯作者：
Vigliocco, Gabriella
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5.4
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Abel, Gregory A.;Glinert, Lewis H.
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Glinert, Lewis H.