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How cognitive selection affects language change

文献类型：期刊论文

作者Li, Ying1,2; Breithaupt, Fritz3,4; Hills, Thomas5; Lin, Ziyong6; Chen, Yanyan1,7; Siew, Cynthia S. W.8; Hertwig, Ralph2
刊名PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
出版日期2024-01-02
卷号121期号:1页码:8
关键词language evolution serial reproduction psycholinguistics corpus analysis age of acquisition
ISSN号0027-8424
DOI10.1073/pnas.2220898120
通讯作者Li, Ying(liying@psych.ac.cn) ; Breithaupt, Fritz(fbreitha@indiana.edu)
英文摘要Like biological species, words in language must compete to survive. Previously, it has been shown that language changes in response to cognitive constraints and over time becomes more learnable. Here, we use two complementary research paradigms to demonstrate how the survival of existing word forms can be predicted by psycholinguistic properties that impact language production. In the first study, we analyzed the survival of words in the context of interpersonal communication. We analyzed data from a large-scale serial-reproduction experiment in which stories were passed down along a transmission chain over multiple participants. The results show that words that are acquired earlier in life, more concrete, more arousing, and more emotional are more likely to survive retellings. We reason that the same trend might scale up to language evolution over multiple generations of natural language users. If that is the case, the same set of psycholinguistic properties should also account for the change of word frequency in natural language corpora over historical time. That is what we found in two large historical-language corpora (Study 2): Early acquisition, concreteness, and high arousal all predict increasing word frequency over the past 200 y. However, the two studies diverge with respect to the impact of word valence and word length, which we take up in the discussion. By bridging micro-level behavioral preferences and macro-level language patterns, our investigation sheds light on the cognitive mechanisms underlying word competition. Significance Words compete for survival in each language. This research investigates the cognitive mechanisms underlying the rise and fall of English word forms using two complementary research paradigms: a serial reproduction experiment where a story is passed on along a diffusion chain and a quantitative linguistic analysis of historical corpora that spans the past two centuries. We found that the competition among word forms is closely associated with how humans use language: words that are acquired earlier in life, more concrete, and more arousing are more likely to survive. Our results suggest that micro-level patterns of language production may scale up to macro-level patterns of language change over generations of language speakers.
收录类别SCI
WOS关键词AUTOMATIC VIGILANCE ; NEGATIVE WORDS ; ACQUISITION ; MEMORY ; AGE ; CONCRETENESS ; ENGLISH ; EVOLUTION ; AROUSAL ; EMOTION
WOS研究方向Science & Technology - Other Topics
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:001200648000007
出版者NATL ACAD SCIENCES
源URL[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/47607]  
专题心理研究所_中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
通讯作者Li, Ying; Breithaupt, Fritz
作者单位1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
2.Max Planck Inst Human Dev, Ctr Adapt Rat, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
3.Indiana Univ, Dept German Studies, Bloomington, IN 00180 USA
4.Indiana Univ, Program Cognit Sci, Bloomington, IN 00180 USA
5.Univ Warwick, Dept Psychol, Coventry CV4 7AL, England
6.Max Planck Inst Human Dev, Ctr Life Span Psychol, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
7.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Psychol, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
8.Natl Univ Singapore, Dept Psychol, Singapore 119077, Singapore
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GB/T 7714		 Li, Ying,Breithaupt, Fritz,Hills, Thomas,et al. How cognitive selection affects language change[J]. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,2024,121(1):8.
APA Li, Ying.,Breithaupt, Fritz.,Hills, Thomas.,Lin, Ziyong.,Chen, Yanyan.,...&Hertwig, Ralph.(2024).How cognitive selection affects language change.PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,121(1),8.
MLA Li, Ying,et al."How cognitive selection affects language change".PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 121.1(2024):8.

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