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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

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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

{"title":"Economy or ecology: metaphor use over time in China’s Government Work Reports","authors":"Ya Sun, Deyi Kong, Chenmeng Zhou","doi":"10.1017/langcog.2023.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.18","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Government attention selectively distributed to various issues in policy-making processes is usually reflected in language, such as metaphors in political discourse. In addition, metaphor change may reveal how conceptualizations of major topics such as economy and ecology evolve over time. After self-building a corpus of China’s 45-year Government Work Reports, this study explores whether there is a difference in attention to topics of economy and ecology over time and investigates the diachronic change of metaphor use on them based on a modified framework for diachronic metaphor change analysis. Results show that attention to economy has been steadily decreasing while attention to ecology has been growing, and that there is an increasing tendency of using more economy and ecology metaphors. Metaphor change on the use of source domains is arranged on a continuum, ranging from constant use (war for economy and ecology, and journey and object for economy), incremental change (living organism and building for economy and ecology, and object for ecology) to fundamental change (building and living organism for ecology). This study may enrich the understanding of diachronic metaphor change by providing a Chinese perspective on the metaphor use in government discourse over time.","PeriodicalId":45880,"journal":{"name":"Language and Cognition","volume":"15 1","pages":"551 - 573"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49095637","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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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

{"title":"Sensory modality profiles of antonyms","authors":"Joost van de Weijer, Ivana Bianchi, Carita Paradis","doi":"10.1017/langcog.2023.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.20","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Adjectives that are used to describe sensory experiences are often used to express more than one modality. The adjective sweet, for instance, may primarily be associated with taste (i.e., taste is the dominant modality of sweet), but it can also be used for smell, sound or sight, and possibly even for touch. It has also been shown that some sensory modalities combine more easily than others. Many adjectives that are used to describe taste, for instance, can also be used for smell, but, less likely, for sound. These associations between sensory modalities as they are expressed in language are the topic of this study. We looked at the distribution of the combinations of dominant modalities in pairs of antonymic sensory adjectives (e.g., sweet–sour), and how the dominant modality of the adjectives in these pairs differed from that of the adjectives in isolation. In our dataset, there was a sizeable number of pairs consisting of adjectives with differing dominant modalities. Within those pairs, we observed that adjectives with the dominant modality sight can also be used for touch and vice versa. Similarly, adjectives with the dominant modality of smell can also be used for taste and vice versa. Finally, adjectives with the dominant modalities sight and touch can both also be used for hearing and for taste, but not the other way around. These results contribute to our understanding of how language is used to describe sensory experiences, and, with that, how sensory experiences may be shaped by the words that we use to describe them.","PeriodicalId":45880,"journal":{"name":"Language and Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46694405","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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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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Beyond the conservative hypothesis: a meta-analysis of lexical-semantic processing in Williams syndrome 超越保守假说:威廉斯综合症词汇语义加工的元分析

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-05-17 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.15

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

{"title":"Beyond the conservative hypothesis: a meta-analysis of lexical-semantic processing in Williams syndrome","authors":"Carlos Romero-Rivas, Sara Rodríguez-Cuadrado, Lucía Sabater, Pablo Rodríguez Gómez, Irene Hidalgo de la Guía, E. Moreno, Elena Garayzábal Heinze","doi":"10.1017/langcog.2023.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.15","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Williams syndrome (WS) is a rare genetic disorder, characterised at the cognitive level by a phenotypic pattern of relative weaknesses (e.g., visuospatial skills) and strengths (e.g., some linguistic and nonverbal reasoning skills). In this study, we performed a systematic search and meta-analysis on lexical-semantic processing in WS, an area of knowledge in which contradictory results have been obtained. We found 42 studies matching our criteria, and, in total, 78 effect sizes were included in the meta-analysis. Results showed that individuals with WS have worse lexical-semantic skills than individuals with typical development, whether matched by chronological or mental age. However, people with WS have better lexical-semantic skills than people diagnosed with other cognitive disabilities. Finally, vocabulary skills seem to be relatively spared in WS, although they present some difficulties in semantic processing/integration, semantic memory organisation and verbal working memory skills. Taken together, these results support a neuroconstructivist approach, according to which the cognitive mechanisms involved in lexical-semantic processing may be modulated, even when performance in some tasks (i.e., vocabulary tasks) might be optimal.","PeriodicalId":45880,"journal":{"name":"Language and Cognition","volume":"15 1","pages":"526 - 550"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46544079","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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Masked orthographic neighbor priming effects in Chinese two-character words 汉语二字词的掩蔽正字法邻居启动效应

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-05-15 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.14

Hui-Ling Yang, Giacomo Spinelli, Lingling Li, S. Lupker

{"title":"Masked orthographic neighbor priming effects in Chinese two-character words","authors":"Hui-Ling Yang, Giacomo Spinelli, Lingling Li, S. Lupker","doi":"10.1017/langcog.2023.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.14","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In masked priming lexical decision tasks in alphabetic or syllabic script languages, latencies are longer when a word target is primed by a higher frequency neighbor (e.g., blue–BLUR) than when primed by an unrelated word of equivalent frequency (e.g., care–BLUR) – an “inhibitory neighbor priming effect.” In contrast, Zhou et al. (1999) demonstrated facilitatory orthographic neighbor priming for two-character Chinese words (e.g., 华丽–华贵). However, Zhou et al. did not control for relative prime-target frequency, which has been shown to be important in experiments when examining languages with other scripts. In the present Experiment 1 word neighbor primes (e.g., 容易-容貌) produced an inhibitory neighbor priming effect when the prime was higher frequency than the target, paralleling effects in other script languages. In further experiments, paralleling those in other script languages, two-character targets primed by nonword neighbors (容待-容貌) or single constituent characters matching the target in either position (容-容貌) showed significant facilitation. These results suggest that lexical activation/competition processes for two-character Chinese words are reasonably similar to those for words in alphabetic/syllabic script languages.","PeriodicalId":45880,"journal":{"name":"Language and Cognition","volume":"15 1","pages":"503 - 525"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42341846","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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Variable motion encoding within Chinese: a usage-based perspective 中文中的可变运动编码：基于使用的视角

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-05-12 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.12

Shujun Chen, Lihuan Wu

{"title":"Variable motion encoding within Chinese: a usage-based perspective","authors":"Shujun Chen, Lihuan Wu","doi":"10.1017/langcog.2023.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.12","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Languages differ considerably in the way they encode motion. Previous research on motion encoding has paid much attention to inter-typological variation (i.e., variation between language types) and intra-typological variation (i.e., variation within language types), but less focus on intra-linguistic variation (i.e., variation within particular languages). To fill this niche, the current study compares actual motion and metaphorical motion in Standard Mandarin Chinese with a corpus-based approach. We ask whether the typological properties in actual motion extend to metaphorical motion. The results indicate that the answer is negative. The typological properties including lexicalization patterns and the distribution of semantic components vary by both event type (actual motion vs. metaphorical motion) and genre (fiction vs. non-fiction) within Chinese. The intra-linguistic variation can be explained by additional factors – the pragmatic context and the structural property of Chinese. These findings support a constructional proposal of the motion event typology, which is a more nuanced typology that expands the binary distinction between V-languages and S-languages. In this proposal, the consideration of the scalar dimension enables more explicit descriptions of variation within languages (shift left- or rightward on the scale) and more accurate explanations for these phenomena.","PeriodicalId":45880,"journal":{"name":"Language and Cognition","volume":"15 1","pages":"480 - 502"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43929548","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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