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Comparing the cognitive load of gesture and action production: a dual-task study 手势和动作产生的认知负荷比较：一项双任务研究

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.23

Autumn B. Hostetter, Sonal Bahl

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A few or several? Construal, quantity, and argumentativity 几个还是几个？结构、数量和辩论性

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.25

Nicole Katzir, Mira Ariel

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Embodiment of color metaphor: an image-based visual analysis of the Chinese color terms hēi ‘black’ and bái ‘white’ 色彩隐喻的具体体现：基于图像的汉语色彩术语“黑”和“白”的视觉分析

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.22

Jinmeng Dou, Meichun Liu, Tong Chen

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Backchannels in conversations between autistic adults are less frequent and less diverse prosodically and lexically 在自闭症成年人之间的对话中，反向通道的频率更低，韵律和词汇的多样性也更低

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-06-21 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.21

Simon Wehrle, K. Vogeley, M. Grice

{"title":"Backchannels in conversations between autistic adults are less frequent and less diverse prosodically and lexically","authors":"Simon Wehrle, K. Vogeley, M. Grice","doi":"10.1017/langcog.2023.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.21","url":null,"abstract":"Backchannels (BCs; listener signals such as ‘mmhm’ or ‘okay’) are a ubiquitous and essential feature of spoken interaction. They are used by listeners predominantly to support the ongoing turn of their interlocutor and to signal understanding and agreement. Listeners seem to be highly sensitive to the exact realisations of BCs and to judge deviations from typical forms as negative. Very little is known about the use of BCs by speakers diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In dialogue recordings of 28 German adults in two groups of disposition-matched dyads (i.e., both interlocutors were either autistic or non-autistic), we found that the ASD group was characterised by (1) a lower rate of BCs per minute (particularly in the early stages of conversation), (2) less diversity in the lexical realisation of BCs and (3) a less diverse and flexible mapping of different intonation contours to different BC types. We interpret these results as reflecting more general characteristics of autistic as compared to non-autistic individuals, namely different strategies in signalling attention towards an interlocutor and less flexible behaviour in social interaction.","PeriodicalId":45880,"journal":{"name":"Language and Cognition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43359076","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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List constructions in two signed languages 列出两种手语的结构

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-06-19 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.19

S. Wilcox, André N. Xavier, Satu Siltaloppi

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Economy or ecology: metaphor use over time in China’s Government Work Reports 经济还是生态:中国政府工作报告中不同时期的隐喻

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-06-16 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.18

Ya Sun, Deyi Kong, Chenmeng Zhou

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Sensory modality profiles of antonyms 反义词的感觉模态特征

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-06-15 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.20

Joost van de Weijer, Ivana Bianchi, Carita Paradis

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A usage-based approach to metaphor identification and analysis in child speech 一种基于用法的儿童言语隐喻识别与分析方法

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-06-14 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.17

Dorota Gaskins, M. Falcone, Gabriella Rundblad

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Sensitivity to syntactic dependency formation in child second language processing: a study of numeral quantifiers in Korean 儿童第二语言加工对句法依赖形成的敏感性——朝鲜语数字量词研究

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-05-29 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.16

Hyunwoo Kim, Kitaek Kim, Kyuhee Jo, Haerim Hwang

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Multimodal-ish: prosodic and kinesic aspects of bounded and free uses of ish 多情态ish: ish的有限和自由用法的韵律和动力方面

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-05-24 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.13

Claudia Lehmann, Meike Pentrel

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