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Language and executive function relationships in the real world: insights from deafness 真实世界中的语言与执行功能关系：从耳聋中获得的启示

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2024.10

Mario Figueroa, Nicola Botting, Gary Morgan

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The influences of narrative perspective shift and scene detail on narrative semantic processing 叙事视角转换和场景细节对叙事语义加工的影响

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2024.9

Jian Jin, Siyun Liu

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The role of consciousness in Chinese nominal metaphor processing: a psychophysical approach 意识在汉语名词隐喻加工中的作用：一种心理物理学方法

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.67

Kaiwen Cheng, Yu Chen, Hongmei Yan, Ling Wang

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Prosody of focus in Turkish Sign Language 土耳其手语中的重点拟声

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2024.4

Serpil Karabüklü, Aslı Gürer

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Contrasting the semantic space of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Japanese 对比英语和日语中 "羞愧 "和 "内疚 "的语义空间

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2024.6

Eugenia Diegoli, Emily Öhman

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Better letter: iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language 更好的字母：美国手语和瑞典手语手动字母的图标性

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-02-29 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2024.5

Carl Börstell

{"title":"Better letter: iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language","authors":"Carl Börstell","doi":"10.1017/langcog.2024.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2024.5","url":null,"abstract":"While iconicity has sometimes been defined as meaning transparency, it is better defined as a subjective phenomenon bound to an individual’s perception and influenced by their previous language experience. In this article, I investigate the subjective nature of iconicity through an experiment in which 72 deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing (signing and non-signing) participants rate the iconicity of individual letters of the American Sign Language (ASL) and Swedish Sign Language (STS) manual alphabets. It is shown that L1 signers of ASL and STS rate their own (L1) manual alphabet as more iconic than the foreign one. Hearing L2 signers of ASL and STS exhibit the same pattern as L1 signers, showing an iconic preference for their own (L2) manual alphabet. In comparison, hearing non-signers show no general iconic preference for either manual alphabet. Across all groups, some letters are consistently rated as more iconic in one sign language than the other, illustrating general iconic preferences. Overall, the results align with earlier findings from sign language linguistics that point to language experience affecting iconicity ratings and that one’s own signs are rated as more iconic than foreign signs with the same meaning, even if similar iconic mappings are used.","PeriodicalId":45880,"journal":{"name":"Language and Cognition","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140019524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Backchannel behavior is idiosyncratic 反向渠道行为具有特异性

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-02-22 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2024.1

Peter Blomsma, Julija Vaitonyté, Gabriel Skantze, Marc Swerts

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The effects of word and beat priming on Mandarin lexical stress recognition: an event-related potential study 词语和节拍引物对普通话词汇重音识别的影响：一项事件相关电位研究

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-02-15 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.75

Wenjing Yu, Yu-Fu Chien, Bing Wang, Jianjun Zhao, Weijun Li

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Does word knowledge account for the effect of world knowledge on pronoun interpretation? 词汇知识是否能解释世界知识对代词解释的影响？

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2024.2

Cameron R. Jones, Benjamin Bergen

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Motion events in Swedish and French: a Holistic Spatial Semantics analysis 瑞典语和法语中的运动事件：整体空间语义分析

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-02-08 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.62

Nataliia Vesnina

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