Hofweber, Julia, Aumonier, Lizzy, Janke, Vikki, Gullberg, Marianne, Marshall, Chloe (2023) Which aspects of visual motivation aid the implicit learning of signs at first exposure? Language Learning, . (In press) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:98666)
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Abstract
We investigated whether sign-naïve learners can infer and learn the meaning of signs after minimal exposure to continuous, naturalistic input in the form of a weather forecast in Swedish Sign Language. Participants were L1-English adults. Two experimental groups watched the forecast once (N=40) or twice (N=42); a control group did not (N=42). Participants were then asked to assign meaning to 22 target signs. We explored predictors of meaning assignment with respect to item occurrence frequency and three facets of visual-motivation: iconicity, transparency, and gesture similarity. Meaning assignment was enhanced by exposure and item frequency, thereby providing evidence for implicit language learning in a new modality, even under challenging naturalistic conditions. Accuracy was also contingent upon iconicity and transparency, but not upon gesture similarity. Meaning assignment at first exposure is thus visually-motivated, although the overall low accuracy rates and further qualitative analyses suggest that visually-motivated meaning assignment is not always successful.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled keywords: | Implicit learning; sign language; iconicity; transparency; gesture; meaning |
Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages |
Funders: | Leverhulme Trust (https://ror.org/012mzw131) |
Depositing User: | Vikki Janke |
Date Deposited: | 04 Dec 2022 09:07 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Mar 2023 13:47 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/98666 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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