音(phon)美学超越声音：社会文化关联、审美吸引力和感知价值在手语中的体现

Aesthetic evaluations of languages depend not only on the linguistic signal but also on language-external factors, notably familiarity with a language and the sociocultural associations triggered by recognising it. For spoken languages, these factors are hard to separate, because languages evoking strong cultural associations are usually also familiar. We used sign languages to isolate the influence of sociocultural associations, testing hearing nonsigners who were unfamiliar with American (ASL) and French (LSF) Sign Language but familiar with the associated cultures. Participants rated 64 sig