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The flexibility and representational nature of phonological prediction in listening comprehension: Evidence from the visual world paradigm 听力理解中语音预测的灵活性和表征性:来自视觉世界范式的证据

3区心理学

Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-10-02 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.38

Zitong Zhao, Jinfeng Ding, Jiayu Wang, Yiya Chen, Xiaoqing Li

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Conceptual metaphor in areal perspective: time, space, and contact in the Sinosphere 地域视角下的概念隐喻:汉语圈中的时间、空间与接触

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-09-28 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.41

Michael Fiddler

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The many facets of inhibitory control and their role in syntactic selection 抑制性控制的许多方面及其在句法选择中的作用

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-09-26 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.44

Małgorzata Korko, Mark Coulson, Alexander Jones, Paul de Mornay Davies

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More than just ambivalence: the perception of emotionally ambiguous words on the spaces of origin and activation indexed by behavioural and webcam-based eye-tracking correlates 不仅仅是矛盾心理:对原始空间的情感模糊词语的感知与行为和基于网络摄像头的眼球追踪索引的激活相关

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-09-21 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.43

Adrianna Wielgopolan, Kamil K. Imbir

{"title":"More than just ambivalence: the perception of emotionally ambiguous words on the spaces of origin and activation indexed by behavioural and webcam-based eye-tracking correlates","authors":"Adrianna Wielgopolan, Kamil K. Imbir","doi":"10.1017/langcog.2023.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.43","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract When we think about emotional ambiguity, we usually think about the feeling of ambivalence. However, in a recently proposed model, ambiguity might also be present in different emotional spaces, such as origin (dimensions of automaticity and reflectiveness) and activation (arousal and subjective significance) as proposed in the basics of dual-process theories. In two experiments, we checked for behavioural and psychophysical differences in processing words of origin and activation ambiguities while completing an emotionality rating task. In Experiment 1, we assessed emotionality ratings and reaction times; in Experiment 2, we used a webcam-based eye-tracking measurement to assess the number and mean duration of fixations. We found significant effects for words differing in origin and activation: the emotionality ratings increased within the intensity of origin ambiguity but decreased within the intensity of activation ambiguity; more and longer fixations were registered for words of higher origin ambiguity; and gradually fewer and shorter fixations were registered within increases in activation ambiguity. We found that the ambiguities on spaces of origin and activation produced their own main effects, but they also factored significantly into the interaction, modifying each other’s results. Our study is the first to show specifics of the perception of ambiguous stimuli on spaces other than valence.","PeriodicalId":45880,"journal":{"name":"Language and Cognition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136235758","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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Functional priority of syntax over semantics in Chinese ‘ba’ construction: evidence from eye-tracking during natural reading 汉语“吧”结构的句法功能优先于语义:来自自然阅读时眼动追踪的证据

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-09-13 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.42

Yanjun Wei, Yingjuan Tang, Adam John Privitera

{"title":"Functional priority of syntax over semantics in Chinese ‘ba’ construction: evidence from eye-tracking during natural reading","authors":"Yanjun Wei, Yingjuan Tang, Adam John Privitera","doi":"10.1017/langcog.2023.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.42","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Studies on sentence processing in inflectional languages support that syntactic structure building functionally precedes semantic processing. Conversely, most EEG studies of Chinese sentence processing do not support the priority of syntax. One possible explanation is that the Chinese language lacks morphological inflections. Another explanation may be that the presentation of separate sentence components on individual screens in EEG studies disrupts syntactic framework construction during sentence reading. The present study investigated this explanation using a self-paced reading experiment mimicking rapid serial visual presentation in EEG studies and an eye-tracking experiment reflecting natural reading. In both experiments, Chinese ‘ba’ sentences were presented to Chinese young adults in four conditions that differed across the dimensions of syntactic and semantic congruency. Evidence supporting the functional priority of syntax over semantics was limited to only the natural reading context, in which syntactic violations blocked the processing of semantics. Additionally, we observed a later stage of integrating plausible semantics with a failed syntax. Together, our findings extend the functional priority of syntax to the Chinese language and highlight the importance of adopting more ecologically valid methods when investigating sentence reading.","PeriodicalId":45880,"journal":{"name":"Language and Cognition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135742198","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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Gender is conceptualized in different ways across cultures 在不同的文化中，性别的概念不同

IF 1.8 3区心理学

Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.40

C. Mazzuca, A. Borghi, S. van Putten, L. Lugli, R. Nicoletti, Asifa Majid

{"title":"Gender is conceptualized in different ways across cultures","authors":"C. Mazzuca, A. Borghi, S. van Putten, L. Lugli, R. Nicoletti, Asifa Majid","doi":"10.1017/langcog.2023.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.40","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Gender can be considered an embodied social concept encompassing biological and cultural components. In this study, we explored whether the concept of gender varies as a function of different cultural and linguistic norms by comparing communities that vary in their social treatment of gender-related issues and linguistic encoding of gender. In Study 1, Italian, Dutch, and English-speaking participants completed a free-listing task, which showed Italians and Dutch were the most distinct in their conceptualization of gender: Italian participants focused more on socio-cultural features (e.g., discrimination, politics, and power), whereas Dutch participants focused more on the corporeal sphere (e.g., hormones, breasts, and genitals). Study 2 replicated this finding focusing on Italian and Dutch and using a typicality rating task: socio-cultural and abstract features were considered as more typical of “gender” by Italian than Dutch participants. Study 3 addressed Italian and Dutch participants’ explicit beliefs about gender with a questionnaire measuring essentialism and constructivism, and consolidated results from Studies 1 and 2 showing that Dutch participants endorsed more essentialist beliefs about gender than Italian participants. Consistent with socio-cultural constructivist accounts, our results provide evidence that gender is conceptualized differently by diverse groups and is adapted to specific cultural and linguistic environments.","PeriodicalId":45880,"journal":{"name":"Language and Cognition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41305270","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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What the development of gesture with and without speech can tell us about the effect of language on thought 在有语言和没有语言的情况下，手势的发展可以告诉我们语言对思维的影响

IF 1.8 3区心理学

Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.34

Ş. Özçalışkan, Ché Lucero, S. Goldin‐Meadow

{"title":"What the development of gesture with and without speech can tell us about the effect of language on thought","authors":"Ş. Özçalışkan, Ché Lucero, S. Goldin‐Meadow","doi":"10.1017/langcog.2023.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.34","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Adults display cross-linguistic variability in their speech in how they package and order semantic elements of a motion event. These differences can also be found in speakers’ co-speech gestures (gesturing with speech), but not in their silent gestures (gesturing without speech). Here, we examine when in development children show the differences between co-speech gesture and silent gesture found in adults. We studied speech and gestures produced by 100 children learning English or Turkish (n = 50/language) – equally divided into 5 age-groups: 3–4, 5–6, 7–8, 9–10, and 11–12 years. Children were asked to describe three-dimensional spatial event scenes (e.g., a figure crawling across carpet) first with speech and then without speech using their hands. We focused on physical motion events that elicit, in adults, cross-linguistic differences in co-speech gesture and cross-linguistic similarities in silent gesture. We found the adult pattern even in the youngest children: (1) Language shaped co-speech gesture beginning at age 3 years, showing an early effect of language on thinking for speaking (as measured by gestures that occur during the speech act). (2) Language did not affect silent gesture at any age, highlighting early limits on the effects language has on thinking and revealing a language of gesture that shows similarities across languages.","PeriodicalId":45880,"journal":{"name":"Language and Cognition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48500244","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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Beyond the conservative hypothesis: a meta-analysis of lexical-semantic processing in Williams syndrome – ERRATUM 超越保守假设：Williams综合征词汇语义处理的荟萃分析

IF 1.8 3区心理学

Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-08-24 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.33

Carlos Romero-Rivas, Sara Rodríguez-Cuadrado, Lucía Sabater, Pablo Rodríguez Gómez, Irene Hidalgo de la Guía, E. Moreno, Elena Garayzábal Heinze

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Metaphor use in depersonalization/derealization 隐喻在人格解体/现实解体中的应用

IF 1.8 3区心理学

Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.39

J. Dilkes

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Event integration as a driving force of language change: evidence from Chinese 使-shǐ-make 事件整合是语言变化的驱动力——来自汉语的证据使-sh-make

IF 1.8 3区心理学

Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-08-15 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.36

Na Liu, F. Li

{"title":"Event integration as a driving force of language change: evidence from Chinese 使-shǐ-make","authors":"Na Liu, F. Li","doi":"10.1017/langcog.2023.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.36","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Talmy’s (1991; 2000a; 2000b) influential work on motion events provides a strong two-way typology that can examine and account for the typology of a language, but this framework is basically synchronic. It may not be equally valid to explain language change. In this paper, we apply the event integration theory and its latest development, The Macro-event Hypothesis (Li, 2020, 2023), to account for the development of the causative verb 使-shǐ-make (SHI for short) in Chinese. This study reveals that, firstly, the multi-functional behavior of SHI represents a typical case of grammaticalization, with a full verb acquiring the role of conjunction and expressing abstract meanings. Secondly, the semantic division of the causative and non-causative uses of SHI in Contemporary Chinese is the most clear-cut. Thirdly, causative SHI shows a greater level of semantic bleaching, and the construction profiles a single causal activity and has a higher degree of event integration when compared to its lexical verbal use. The constructional grammaticalization of SHI confirms that event integration is key to its development. This study verifies The Macro-event Hypothesis of a continuum of grammaticalization in language and uncovers the process of semantic gradation that takes place in Chinese.","PeriodicalId":45880,"journal":{"name":"Language and Cognition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47345793","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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