Gagné Christina L, Shoben Edward J
Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Mem Cognit. 2002 Jun;30(4):637-46. doi: 10.3758/bf03194965.
We conducted two experiments to examine whether the interpretation of an ambiguous noun phrase is influenced by exposure to a similar combination. In Experiment 1, we found that it was easier to verify a definition for a combination (e.g., adolescent doctor, a doctor for adolescents) when the prime used the same relation as the target (e.g., adolescent magazine, a magazine for adolescents; animal doctor, a doctor for animals) than when the prime used a different relation (e.g., country doctor; adolescent experience). In Experiment 2, we found that the interpretation generated for an ambiguous combination was affected by prior exposure to sentences containing a combination with the same modifier or head noun as the target combination. The data are inconsistent with key predictions of schema-based theories of conceptual combination. Although the results do not contradict key assumptions of relation-based theories, modifications to these theories are required to account for these data.
我们进行了两项实验，以检验对一个歧义名词短语的解释是否会受到接触类似组合的影响。在实验1中，我们发现，当启动项与目标使用相同的关系时（例如，青少年杂志，一本面向青少年的杂志；动物医生，一名为动物看病的医生），比起启动项使用不同关系时（例如，乡村医生；青少年经历），更容易验证一个组合的定义（例如，青少年医生，一名为青少年看病的医生）。在实验2中，我们发现，对于一个歧义组合所产生的解释会受到先前接触过的包含与目标组合具有相同修饰语或中心名词的组合的句子的影响。这些数据与基于图式的概念组合理论的关键预测不一致。尽管结果并不与基于关系的理论的关键假设相矛盾，但需要对这些理论进行修正以解释这些数据。
