Bock J S, Clifton C
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, MA 01003, USA.
Mem Cognit. 2000 Dec;28(8):1378-86. doi: 10.3758/bf03211838.
The present study investigated three factors that affect the interpretation of novel noun-noun (N-N) combinations: simple feature salience, ontological category, and assessed similarity. Participants read and defined a series of novel N-N combinations in which the feature salience of N1 and N2 was manipulated. Participants also rated the combinations for similarity. The combinations were constrained to be within ontological category. All interpretations were scored in terms of the strategies (property mapping vs. relation linking) used to produce the given interpretations. Highly salient features drove property-mapping interpretations based on those features. Natural kinds produced more property-mapping interpretations than did artifacts. There was no correlation between the proportion of property-mapping interpretations and the assessed similarity of the N-N combinations. These results are discussed as an extension of Estes and Glucksberg's (2000) interactive theory of conceptual combination and argue for the importance of feature salience as a factor in conceptual combination.
本研究调查了影响对新颖名词-名词（N-N）组合进行解释的三个因素：简单特征显著性、本体类别和评估的相似性。参与者阅读并定义了一系列新颖的N-N组合，其中N1和N2的特征显著性受到了操控。参与者还对这些组合的相似性进行了评分。这些组合被限定在本体类别范围内。所有解释都根据用于产生给定解释的策略（属性映射与关系链接）进行评分。高度显著的特征推动了基于这些特征的属性映射解释。自然类别产生的属性映射解释比人工制品更多。属性映射解释的比例与N-N组合的评估相似性之间没有相关性。这些结果被作为埃斯蒂斯和格鲁克斯伯格（2000）概念组合交互理论的扩展进行了讨论，并论证了特征显著性作为概念组合中的一个因素的重要性。
