Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences Keio University
2. School of Humanities Nagoya University
Abstract
AbstractKemmerer 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.
Subject
Artificial Intelligence,Cognitive Neuroscience,Human-Computer Interaction,Linguistics and Language,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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