Differential Encoding of Sight versus Hearing: Some Tendencies and Cross-Linguistic Variation
15-16h30
MSH-LSE, salle Elise Rivet
Conférence de :
Yana Aquilina(DDL)
dans le cadre DILIS
In our everyday experience, vision and hearing differ in various ways, including the degree of control over the perceptual act. As visual experiencers, we are able to select the object of perception, control the time of contact with it, and end the contact
by looking away. Conversely, in case of an auditory experience, we tend to influence its choice and duration in a more limited manner. In this talk, we will explore whether this control-based asymmetry has correlates in grammatical and lexical phenomena across
genealogically diverse languages as well as across two communication modes (verbal versus gestural). I will present several projects, with a special reference to an ongoing study on Noun+Verb sensory expressions in Mande and Nakh-Daghestanian.