Périn Philomène, Herrera Santiago, Bogliotti Caroline
Modyco, UMR 7114, CNRS, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France.
Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France.
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Dec 2;57(1):1. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02521-1.
In psycholinguistics, studies are conducted to understand language processing mechanisms, whether in comprehension or in production, and independently of the language modality. To do so, researchers need accurate psycholinguistic information about the linguistic material they use. One main obstacle to this process is the lack of information available in sign language. While some lexical databases exist in multiple sign languages, to the best of our knowledge, psycholinguistic data for French Sign Language (LSF) signs are not yet available. The present study presents FLexSign, the first interactive lexical database for LSF, inspired by ASL-Lex (Caselli et al., 2017). The database includes familiarity, concreteness, and iconicity data for 546 signs of LSF. These three factors are known to influence the speed or the accuracy of lexical processing. Familiarity and concreteness are known to generate a robust facilitative effect on sign processing, while iconicity plays a complex but crucial role in the creation and organization of sign language lexicons. Therefore, having accurate information on the iconicity of LSF signs would help to better understand the role of this notion in lexical processing. To develop the database, 33 participants were recruited and asked to complete an online questionnaire. The FLexSign database will be of great use to sign language researchers, providing linguistic information that was previously unavailable and offering many opportunities at both the experimental and clinical levels. The database is also open to future contributions.
在心理语言学中，人们开展各项研究以理解语言处理机制，无论是在理解还是产出方面，且不考虑语言模态。为此，研究人员需要有关其使用的语言材料的准确心理语言学信息。这一过程的一个主要障碍是手语方面可用信息的匮乏。虽然多种手语存在一些词汇数据库，但据我们所知，法国手语（LSF）手势的心理语言学数据尚不可用。本研究介绍了FLexSign，这是首个受ASL-Lex（卡塞利等人，2017年）启发的LSF交互式词汇数据库。该数据库包含了546个LSF手势的熟悉度、具体性和象似性数据。已知这三个因素会影响词汇处理的速度或准确性。已知熟悉度和具体性对手势处理会产生强大的促进作用，而象似性在手语词汇的创建和组织中起着复杂但关键的作用。因此，掌握有关LSF手势象似性的准确信息将有助于更好地理解这一概念在词汇处理中的作用。为开发该数据库，招募了33名参与者并要求他们完成一份在线问卷。FLexSign数据库将对手语研究人员有很大用处，提供以前无法获得的语言信息，并在实验和临床层面提供许多机会。该数据库也接受未来的贡献。
