On the origin of internal structure of word forms
On the origin of internal structure of word forms
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DOI：
10.1126/science.288.5465.527
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发表时间：
2000-04-21
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
Davis, BL
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作者：
MacNeilage, PF;Davis, BL
本研究表明，一个语料库的原始词的形式共享四个连续的声音模式与现代语言的单词和婴儿的第一个单词。其中三种模式涉及音节内辅音-元音（CV）共现：唇（唇）辅音与中央元音，冠（舌前）辅音与前元音，背（舌后）辅音与后元音。第四种模式是音节间偏好以唇辅音-元音-冠辅音序列（LC）开头的单词。CV效应可能主要是生物力学驱动的。LC效应可能是自组织的，具有多元因果关系。研究结果支持了这四种模式是词汇起源的基础的假设。
This study shows that a corpus of proto-word forms shares four sequential sound patterns with words of modern languages and the first words of infants. Three of the patterns involve intrasyllabic consonant-vowel (CV) co-occurrence: labial (Lip) consonants with central vowels, coronal (tongue front) consonants with front vowels, and dorsal (tongue back) consonants with back vowels. The fourth pattern is an intersyllabic preference for initiating words with a labial consonant-vowel-coronal consonant sequence (LC). The CV effects may be primarily biomechanically motivated. The LC effect may be self-organizational, with multivariate causality. The findings support the hypothesis that these four patterns were basic to the origin of words.