摘要
通过2个实验,考察了语义类标记在中国手语词汇识别和语义提取中的作用。实验1采用手语词汇判断任务,比较了有、无语义类标记的手语词汇识别。实验2采用语义决定任务,探讨了语义类标记对手语词语义提取的影响。结果表明,语义类标记影响聋生对手语词的识别和语义提取。聋生识别有语义类标记的手语词显著快于识别无语义类标记的手语词。当语义类标记与手语词的语义一致时,能够促进聋生对手语词的语义提取;当语义类标记与手语词的语义不一致,会干扰聋生对手语词的语义提取。中国手语词语义类标记效应的发现,丰富了中国手语词词汇认知的理论,对聋人的语言教学和概念教学具有重要的启示。
Classifier is a symbol of an object belonging to a particular class. Sign language classifier is a kind of hand-shape which included location, shape, movement and orientation, or with a particular non-manual feature. As one of major factors in sign language, however, the semantic classifier construction in Chinese Sign Language （CSL） has seldom been investigated as a special field. Likewise, YiFu （shapes） of Chinese characters signifies their meaning directly and YiFu is the main carriers of this function. Many studies have examined the role of components in the recognition of Chinese characters. The results showed that the effect of YiFu existed in semantic processing of Chinese words. In addition, by means of word classifying, the studies showed that the symbol of the upper concepts in concept names played an important role in the semantic extraction of scientific and natural concepts. According to the results of the study of Chinese characters, the semantic classifier might affect the recognition of sign language. As a result, we adopted three semantic categories to examine how the semantic classifier of sign language affect the deaf in recognition of the sign language. The three categories include： （1） Generation, the classifier Gender, the classifier leadership. represents male elders and represents female elders; （2） represents female; （3） Position, the classifier represents the position of By using two experiments, the effect of the semantic classifier on the word identification and semantic decision of the Chinese Sign Language were investigated. In Experiment 1, in order to examine the influence of semantic classifier to sign word identification, the deaf students were required to make a lexical decision which were asked to judge a target sign is real or not. The stimulus were 88 sign pictures which were obtained from Chinese Sign Language （2003）, including 88 pseudo sign pictures. The result showed that reaction times of the deaf students in identifying the sign language with semantic classifier was much shorter than those without semantic classifier. The Experiment 2 adopted the semantic decision task to explore the influence of semantic classifier to semantic extraction, in which deaf students were required to judge respectively which one was elder or younger; male or female; leadership or non-leadership. The experimental materials of Experiment 2 were the same as in Experiment 1. Similar results were obtained from Experiment 2, deaf students had slower response when target items had no semantic classifier. The two experiments showed that the semantic classifier affected sign word identification and meaning extraction of sign language. To sum up, the current study demonstrated the similar tendency as Chinese characters： If the semantic classifier was consistent with semantic meaning of sign language, it could improve the deaf in semantic extraction of sigh language; if not, it could hinder them. The conclusion of semantic classifier of sign language make contribution to the theory of CSL word cognition. It also has an important enlightenment in language and concept education for the deaf.
出处
《心理学报》
CSSCI
CSCD
北大核心
2012年第8期1004-1014,共11页
Acta Psychologica Sinica
基金
教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地项目(08JJDXLX269)资助
关键词
中国手语
语义类标记
词汇识别
语义提取
Chinese sign language
semantic classifier
lexical recognition
semantic extraction
