The role of iconicity, construal, and proficiency in the online processing of handshape
The role of iconicity, construal, and proficiency in the online processing of handshape
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DOI：
10.1017/langcog.2020.1
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发表时间：
2020-03-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Morford，Jill P.
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作者：
Occhino，Corrine;Anible，Benjamin;Morford，Jill P.
象似性传统上被认为是语言形式的一种客观、固定、一维的属性，在实验中常被操作为透明性。在认知语言学的框架内，象似性是个体的形式联想和意义联想之间的映射，具有主观性、动态性和多维性。我们测试后一种选择，要求签名者谁在ASL熟练程度不同，完成一个手形监测任务，我们操纵的形式意义的数量，目标手形参与。我们使用混合效应模型对参与者和项目的反应时间和准确性进行了评估，结果显示了像似性，熟练度和一致性密度之间的显着三向相互作用，例如，不太熟练的签名者在更多的标志性标志中比不太标志性的标志更快地检测到手形，无论他们正在监测的手形如何，但高度熟练的签名者的表现只提高了象似性的手的形状，参与了许多martisals。结合越来越多的证据的主观性的象似性，我们解释这些结果支持的主张，即联想是一个核心机制的象似性，无论是透明的和系统的语言内部形式意义映射。
Iconicity has traditionally been considered an objective, fixed, unidimensional property of language forms, often operationalized as transparency for experimental purposes. Within a Cognitive Linguistics framework, iconicity is a mapping between an individual’s construal of form and construal of meaning, such that iconicity is subjective, dynamic, and multidimensional. We test the latter alternative by asking signers who differed in ASL proficiency to complete a handshape monitoring task in which we manipulated the number of form–meaning construals that target handshapes participated in. We estimated the interaction of iconicity, proficiency, and construal density using mixed-effects models for response time and accuracy with crossed random effects for participants and items.Results show a significant three-way interaction between iconicity, proficiency, and construal density such that less-proficient signers detected handshapes in more iconic signs faster than less iconic signs regardless of the handshape they were monitoring, but highly proficient signers’ performance was only improved by iconicity for handshapes that participate in many construals. Taken in conjunction with growing evidence of the subjectivity of iconicity, we interpret these results as support for the claim that construal is a core mechanism underlying iconicity, both for transparent and systematic language-internal form–meaning mappings.