![]() Received: ApAccepted: DecemPublished: February 25, 2022Ĭopyright: © 2022 Bradley et al. This suggests the existence of visual biases that underlie detection of linguistic categories, such as transitivity, which may uncouple from underlying conceptual representations over time in mature sign languages due to lexicalization processes.Ĭitation: Bradley C, Malaia EA, Siskind JM, Wilbur RB (2022) Visual form of ASL verb signs predicts non-signer judgment of transitivity. Further, non-signers cue in on just those features that code event representations across sign languages, despite interpreting them differently. We found that non-signers did not accurately guess the transitivity of the signs, but that non-signer transitivity judgments can nevertheless be predicted from the signs’ visual characteristics. To do this, we correlated non-signer judgments about transitivity of verb signs from American Sign Language (ASL) with phonological characteristics of these signs. To this end, we asked what visual cues non-signers may use in evaluating transitivity (i.e., the number of entities involved in an action). However, little is known about what makes action representations in sign language iconic, or whether and how the mapping of underlying event representations to syntactic encoding is visually apparent in the form of a verb sign. recognized by non-signers as well as signers, and have identified specific visual cues that achieve this mapping. ![]() Experimental research on linguistic parameters such as plurality and aspect has recently shown some of them to be visually universal in sign, i.e. In the same vein, sign languages have long been claimed to construct signs that visually represent their meaning, i.e., signs that are iconic. Thus, the current study extends previous work by demonstrating that iconicity effects permeate the entire language system, arising automatically even when access to meaning is not needed.Longstanding cross-linguistic work on event representations in spoken languages have argued for a robust mapping between an event’s underlying representation and its syntactic encoding, such that–for example–the agent of an event is most frequently mapped to subject position. We conclude that meaning is activated automatically for highly iconic properties of a sign, and this leads to interference in making form-based decisions. The results show that iconicity is a significant predictor of response latencies and accuracy, with more iconic signs leading to slower responses and more errors. The current study investigates the extent of iconicity effects with a phonological decision task (does the sign involve straight or curved fingers?) in which the meaning of the sign is irrelevant. ![]() Previously, we demonstrated a processing advantage when iconic properties of signs were made salient in a corresponding picture during a picture and sign matching task (Thompson, Vinson, & Vigliocco, 2009). Signed languages exploit the visual/gestural modality to create iconic expression across a wide range of basic conceptual structures in which the phonetic resources of the language are built up into an analogue of a mental image (Taub, 2001).
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