Speed as a dimension of manner in Estonian frog stories

IF 0.5 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
P. Taremaa, Johanna Kiik, Leena Karin Toots, Ann Veismann
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Abstract

Focusing on the expression of manner and path in the ‘frog story’ narrations of Estonian native speakers, this study shows that Estonian – a morphologically rich satellite-framed Finno-Ugric language – is characterised by high manner and high path salience. Furthermore, when analysing one of the core qualities of manner – speed – we show that when the participants were asked to narrate a story as if the events developed slowly, they also spoke slowly and their stories tended to be long (both in time duration and word count) and include many details. When they were asked to tell the story as if the events developed fast, they also spoke faster and used more verbs of caused motion and verbs of vertical motion. Thus, the speed of motion in the physical world seems to be mimicked by speech rate, indicating mental simulation and iconic prosody. The exact nature of speed effects in linguistic choices for expressing motion remains to be studied in future works.
速度是爱沙尼亚青蛙故事中方式的一个维度
本研究聚焦于爱沙尼亚母语人士“青蛙故事”叙事中的方式和路径表达,表明爱沙尼亚语——一种形态丰富的卫星框架芬诺-乌戈尔语——具有高度的方式和高度的路径显著性。此外,在分析方式的核心品质之一——速度时,我们发现,当参与者被要求讲述一个故事时,就好像事件发展得很慢一样,他们也说得很慢,他们的故事往往很长(无论是持续时间还是字数),并包含许多细节。当他们被要求像事件发展得很快一样讲述故事时,他们也会说得更快,并使用更多的引起动作动词和垂直动作动词。因此,物理世界中的运动速度似乎被语速模仿,这表明心理模拟和标志性韵律。在表达运动的语言选择中,速度效应的确切性质仍有待于未来的研究。
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