Articulatory features of phonemes pattern to iconic meanings: evidence from cross-linguistic ideophones

IF 1.8 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-22 DOI:10.1515/cog-2020-0055
A. Thompson, Thomas Van Hoey, Youngah Do
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Abstract Iconic words are supposed to exhibit imitative relationships between their linguistic forms and their referents. Many studies have worked to pinpoint sound-to-meaning correspondences for ideophones from different languages. The correspondence patterns show similarities across languages, but what makes such language-specific correspondences universal, as iconicity claims to be, remains unclear. This could be due to a lack of consensus on how to describe and test the perceptuo-motor affordances that make an iconic word feel imitative to speakers. We created and analysed a database of 1,860 ideophones across 13 languages, and found that seven articulatory features, physiologically accessible to all spoken language users, pattern according to semantic features of ideophones. Our findings pave the way for future research to utilize articulatory properties as a means to test and explain how iconicity is encoded in spoken language. The perspective taken here fits in with ongoing research of embodiment, motivation, and iconicity research, three major strands of research within Cognitive Linguistics. The results support that there is a degree of unity between the concepts of imitative communication and the spoken forms through cross-domain mappings, which involve physical articulatory movement.
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从音位模式到标志意义的衔接特征——来自跨语言表意词的证据
抽象象似词应该表现出其语言形式与其指称对象之间的模仿关系。许多研究都致力于精确定位不同语言的表意电话的音义对应关系。对应模式显示出不同语言之间的相似性,但是什么使这种特定语言的对应具有普遍性,正如象似性所声称的那样,目前尚不清楚。这可能是由于在如何描述和测试感知器运动可供性方面缺乏共识,这些可供性会让一个标志性单词让说话者感到模仿。我们创建并分析了一个包含13种语言的1860个表意词的数据库,发现所有口语用户在生理上都可以访问的七个发音特征是根据表意词的语义特征形成的。我们的发现为未来的研究铺平了道路,利用发音特性来测试和解释象似性是如何在口语中编码的。这里的观点与认知语言学中正在进行的化身、动机和象似性研究相吻合,这是认知语言学中的三大研究领域。研究结果支持,通过跨领域映射,模仿交际的概念和口语形式之间存在一定程度的统一,这涉及到物理发音运动。
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期刊介绍: Cognitive Linguistics presents a forum for linguistic research of all kinds on the interaction between language and cognition. The journal focuses on language as an instrument for organizing, processing and conveying information. Cognitive Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope and seeks to publish only works that represent a significant advancement to the theory or methods of cognitive linguistics, or that present an unknown or understudied phenomenon. Topics the structural characteristics of natural language categorization (such as prototypicality, cognitive models, metaphor, and imagery); the functional principles of linguistic organization, as illustrated by iconicity; the conceptual interface between syntax and semantics; the experiential background of language-in-use, including the cultural background; the relationship between language and thought, including matters of universality and language specificity.
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