Carlson Matthew T, Fábregas Antonio, Putnam Michael T
Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Program in Linguistics, Center for Language Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States.
Department of Language and Culture, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway.
Front Psychol. 2021 Feb 26;12:601303. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.601303. eCollection 2021.
What is the nature and function of mental representations in cognitive science, and in human language in particular? How do they come into existence and interact, and how is the information attributed to them stored in and retrieved from the human mind? Some theories treat constructions as primitive entities used for structure-building, central in both production and comprehension, while other theories only admit construction-like entities as devices to map the structure into semantics or to relate them to specific morphophonological exponents. In this positional piece, we seek to elucidate areas of commonality across what have traditionally been divergent approaches to the role of constructions in language. Here we outline a robust specification of the differences in how chunks of structure containing information are treated in the two main approaches, and we seek to offer a path toward a more unified theoretical stance.
在认知科学中，尤其是在人类语言中，心理表征的本质和功能是什么？它们是如何产生和相互作用的，以及归因于它们的信息是如何存储在人类思维中并从其中检索出来的？一些理论将结构视为用于构建结构的原始实体，在生成和理解中都起着核心作用，而其他理论只承认类似结构的实体是将结构映射到语义或将它们与特定的形态音位指数相关联的工具。在这篇立场文章中，我们试图阐明在传统上对结构在语言中的作用存在分歧的方法之间的共性领域。在这里，我们概述了两种主要方法在处理包含信息的结构块方面差异的详细说明，并试图提供一条通往更统一理论立场的途径。
