Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences, Keio University.
School of Humanities, Nagoya University.
Top Cogn Sci. 2023 Oct;15(4):676-682. doi: 10.1111/tops.12671. Epub 2023 Jun 18.
Kemmerer captured the drastic change in theories of word meaning representations, contrasting the view that word meaning representations are amodal and universal, with the view that they are grounded and language-specific. However, he does not address how language can be simultaneously grounded and language-specific. Here, we approach this question from the perspective of language acquisition and evolution. We argue that adding a new element-iconicity-is critically beneficial and offer the iconicity ring hypothesis, which explains how language-specific, secondary iconicity might emerge from biologically grounded and universally shared iconicity in the course of language acquisition and evolution.
凯默勒捕捉到了单词意义表示理论的剧烈变化，对比了单词意义表示是无模态和普遍的观点，以及单词意义表示是基于具体语言的观点。然而，他没有解决语言如何同时具有基础性和语言特异性的问题。在这里，我们从语言习得和进化的角度来探讨这个问题。我们认为添加一个新的元素——象似性——是非常有益的，并提出了象似性环假说，该假说解释了在语言习得和进化过程中，如何从生物基础和普遍共享的象似性中产生特定于语言的、次要的象似性。
