Murphy Elliot
Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, United States.
Texas Institute for Restorative Neurotechnologies, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, United States.
Front Psychol. 2021 Nov 30;12:528862. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.528862. eCollection 2021.
The conditions under which certain complex polysemous nominals can sustain coherent sense relations (informally, can "survive") is investigated through a two-alternative forced choice experiment. Written scenarios were constructed which permitted copredication, through which multiple, semantically different sense types are associated with a single nominal. Participants were presented with two scenarios involving a polysemous nominal (e.g., , ) and had to select which scenario (and, hence, which combination of predicates) appeared to be the most prototypical, faithful realization of the nominal. In order to achieve this, an additional manipulation was added, such that the number of senses hosted by each forced choice was either equal (2 senses choice vs. 2 senses choice) or unequal (1 sense choice vs. 2/3 senses choice). In order to address certain concerns in the literature about prototypicality, a core question addressed was whether the institutional sense of the nominals strongly determined the option chosen by participants, or whether the number of senses more strongly predicted this. It was found that the best predictor of sense "survival" was not sense frequency, but rather sense complexity or approximation to the institutional sense.
通过一项二选一的强迫选择实验，研究了某些复杂的多义词名词能够维持连贯语义关系（非正式地说，能够“存活”）的条件。构建了书面场景，这些场景允许共同谓述，通过共同谓述，多个语义不同的意义类型与单个名词相关联。向参与者展示两个涉及多义词名词的场景（例如，……），参与者必须选择哪个场景（以及因此哪种谓词组合）似乎是该名词最典型、最忠实的实现。为了实现这一点，增加了一项额外的操作，使得每个强迫选择所包含的意义数量要么相等（2种意义选择对2种意义选择），要么不相等（1种意义选择对2/3种意义选择）。为了解决文献中关于典型性的某些问题，所探讨的一个核心问题是名词的惯用语义是否强烈决定参与者选择的选项，或者意义的数量是否更能有力地预测这一点。研究发现，意义“存活”的最佳预测因素不是意义频率，而是意义复杂性或与惯用语义的接近程度。
