社区规模与标志性在手语中的关系
Shiri Lev-Ari1, Rose Stamp2, Connie de Vos3
1Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Cognitive science
|June 7, 2025
概括
较大的手语社区为非社会概念开发了更具标志性的标志,帮助学习能力. 然而,这种标志性在社会概念和较小的手语中不那么明显.
科学领域:
- 语言学的语言学.
- 心理语言学 心理语言学
- 社会语言学 社会语言学
背景情况:
- 较大的社区倾向于开发更简单的语言,以方便交流.
- 大型社区的口语表现出更多的声音符号,可能有助于获取.
- 标志性在手语获取和使用中的作用受到争论,手语通常比口语更具标志性.
研究的目的:
- 调查社区规模是否影响手语中的标志性,类似于口语中的声音象征性.
- 要确定符号语言中的标志性是否在不同的语义领域 (社会与非社会) 之间有所不同.
- 探索标志性,猜测准确性和社区规模在手语中的关系.
主要方法:
- 跨语言研究涉及来自五个国家的11种手语,按社区规模进行分类 (>500,000 vs. <3000名手语者).
- 参与者评价了标志性,并猜测了来自社会和非社会语义领域的标志的含义.
- 分析比较了标志性评级和猜测大小手语社区之间以及跨语义领域的准确性.
主要成果:
- 大手语中的非社会标志被评为比小手语中的标志更具标志性.
- 对于大和小手语之间的社会标志,没有发现标志性的显著差异.
- 额定标志性和猜测准确性在大型手语中更一致,这表明对文化特定标志性的依赖较小.
结论:
- 社区规模影响了手语的标志性程度,特别是在非社会概念方面.
- 社区规模对标志性的影响是由语义域调节的.
- 较大的手语社区可能会支持更透明的标志性,以促进沟通和学习.
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