Concepts Are Restructured During Language Contact: The Birth of Blue and Other Color Concepts in Tsimane'-Spanish Bilinguals.

IF 4.8 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Epub Date: 2023-10-31 DOI:10.1177/09567976231199742

Saima Malik-Moraleda, Kyle Mahowald, Bevil R Conway, Edward Gibson

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Abstract

Words and the concepts they represent vary across languages. Here we ask if mother-tongue concepts are altered by learning a second language. What happens when speakers of Tsimane', a language with few consensus color terms, learn Bolivian Spanish, a language with more terms? Three possibilities arise: Concepts in Tsimane' may remain unaffected, or they may be remapped, either by Tsimane' terms taking on new meanings or by borrowing Bolivian-Spanish terms. We found that adult bilingual speakers (n = 30) remapped Tsimane' concepts without importing Bolivian-Spanish terms into Tsimane'. All Tsimane' terms become more precise; for example, concepts of monolingual shandyes and yụshñus (~green or blue, used synonymously by Tsimane' monolinguals; n = 71) come to reflect the Bolivian-Spanish distinction of verde (~green) and azul (~blue). These results show that learning a second language can change the concepts in the first language.

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语言接触过程中的概念重构：齐曼西班牙语双语者中蓝色和其他颜色概念的诞生。

单词及其所代表的概念因语言而异。在这里，我们要问母语概念是否因学习第二语言而改变。Tsimane是一种几乎没有一致颜色术语的语言，当使用者学习玻利维亚西班牙语时会发生什么？出现了三种可能性：Tsimane中的概念可能不受影响，也可能被重新映射，要么是Tsimane的术语具有新的含义，要么是借用玻利维亚的西班牙语术语。我们发现，成年双语使用者（n=30）重新映射了Tsimane的概念，而没有将玻利维亚西班牙语术语引入Tsimane。齐曼的所有术语都变得更加精确；例如，单语shandyes和y的概念ụshñus（~绿色或蓝色，Tsimane单语的同义词；n=71）反映了玻利维亚西班牙语中verde（~绿色）和azul（~蓝色）的区别。这些结果表明，学习第二语言可以改变第一语言中的概念。

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