Statistical Relationships Between Surface Form and Sensory Meanings of English Words Influence Lexical Processing

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作者
de Zubicaray, Greig I. [1 ]
Kearney, Elaine [1 ]
Guenther, Frank [2 ,3 ]
McMahon, Katie L. [4 ,5 ]
Arciuli, Joanne [6 ]
机构
[1] Queensland Univ Technol QUT, Fac Hlth, Sch Psychol & Counselling, Brisbane, Australia
[2] Boston Univ, Dept Speech Language & Hearing Sci, Boston, MA USA
[3] Boston Univ, Dept Biomed Engn, Boston, MA USA
[4] Queensland Univ Technol QUT, Ctr Biomed Technol, Sch Clin Sci, Brisbane, Australia
[5] Royal Brisbane & Womens Hosp, Herston Imaging Res Facil, Herston, Qld, Australia
[6] Flinders Univ S Australia, Coll Nursing & Hlth Sci, Adelaide, Australia
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词
phonology; sensory experience; embodiment; iconicity; word recognition; GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY; EXPERIENCE RATINGS; PHONOLOGICAL NEIGHBORHOOD; PHONOTACTIC PROBABILITY; PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCE; SEMANTIC RICHNESS; SOUND-SYMBOLISM; DECISION DATA; SPOKEN WORDS; RECOGNITION;
D O I
10.1037/xhp0001209
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Across spoken languages, there are some words whose acoustic features resemble the meanings of their referents by evoking perceptual imagery, i.e., they are iconic (e.g., in English, "splash" imitates the sound of an object hitting water). While these sound symbolic form-meaning relationships are well-studied, relatively little work has explored whether the sensory properties of English words also involve systematic (i.e., statistical) form-meaning mappings. We first test the prediction that surface form properties can predict sensory experience ratings for over 5,000 monosyllabic and disyllabic words (Juhasz & Yap, 2013), confirming they explain a significant proportion of variance. Next, we show that iconicity and sensory form typicality, a statistical measure of how well a word's form aligns with its sensory experience rating, are only weakly related to each other, indicating they are likely to be distinct constructs. To determine whether form typicality influences processing of sensory words, we conducted regression analyses using lexical decision, word recognition, naming and semantic decision tasks from behavioral megastudy data sets. Across the data sets, sensory form typicality was able to predict more variance in performance than sensory experience or iconicity ratings. Further, the effects of typicality were consistently inhibitory in comprehension (i.e., more typical forms were responded to more slowly and less accurately), whereas for production the effect was facilitatory. These findings are the first evidence that systematic form-meaning mappings in English sensory words influence their processing. We discuss how language processing models incorporating Bayesian prediction mechanisms might be able to account for form typicality in the lexicon.
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页码:723 / 739
页数:17
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