心理词汇的另一种观点。

An alternative view of the mental lexicon.

作者信息

Elman Jeffrey L

机构信息

Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0515, USA.

出版信息

Trends Cogn Sci. 2004 Jul;8(7):301-6. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2004.05.003.

DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2004.05.003

PMID:15242689

Abstract

An essential aspect of knowing language is knowing the words of that language. This knowledge is usually thought to reside in the mental lexicon, a kind of dictionary that contains information regarding a word's meaning, pronunciation, syntactic characteristics, and so on. In this article, a very different view is presented. In this view, words are understood as stimuli that operate directly on mental states. The phonological, syntactic and semantic properties of a word are revealed by the effects it has on those states.

摘要

了解一门语言的一个基本方面就是了解该语言的词汇。这种知识通常被认为存在于心理词典中，心理词典是一种包含有关单词的意义、发音、句法特征等信息的词典。在本文中，提出了一种截然不同的观点。按照这种观点，单词被理解为直接作用于心理状态的刺激物。一个单词的语音、句法和语义属性通过它对那些心理状态所产生的影响而得以揭示。