Durkin K, Manning J
Department of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands.
J Psycholinguist Res. 1989 Nov;18(6):577-612. doi: 10.1007/BF01067161.
Subjective perceptions of the senses of polysemous English words are collected in questionnaire studies and the effects of variability in semantic distances among these senses are examined in an experiment. In the first of two questionnaire studies, native speakers produce meanings for 175 polysemous words; from their responses, the most frequently produced meaning for each word is identified as its dominant sense. In a second questionnaire, independent subjects rate the semantic relatedness between the dominant meaning and the other senses generated for each word in the first study. Relatedness measures vary, raising the possibility that polysemous words vary in terms of the salience of their different senses in different contexts. This is confirmed in an experiment showing that salience ratings are influenced by the interacting factors of sentential context, extent of relatedness of the senses, and the dominance status of the senses.
在问卷调查研究中收集了多义词的主观感官认知，并在一项实验中考察了这些意义之间语义距离变化的影响。在两项问卷调查研究中的第一项中，以英语为母语的人给出了175个多义词的含义；从他们的回答中，每个词最常给出的含义被确定为其主导意义。在第二项问卷调查中，独立的受试者对第一项研究中每个词的主导意义与其他意义之间的语义相关性进行评分。相关性测量方法各不相同，这增加了多义词在不同语境中不同意义的显著程度存在差异的可能性。这在一项实验中得到了证实，该实验表明，显著程度评分受句子语境、意义相关程度和意义主导地位等相互作用因素的影响。
