Classifier effects on human categorization: the role of shape classifiers in Mandarin Chinese
Classifier effects on human categorization: the role of shape classifiers in Mandarin Chinese
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分类器对人类分类的影响：形状分类器在普通话中的作用
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发表时间：
2009
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通讯作者：
M. Sera
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作者：
Jenny Yi;M. Sera
汉语是一种根据形状、材料和大小对名词进行分组的语言。我们的问题是，根据形状对名词进行分类是否会影响汉语使用者在对物体进行分类时对形状的依赖程度。三个实验研究了在分类任务中，汉语和英语为母语的成年人对形状与分类或功能相似性的依赖程度。在所有三个实验中，中国人比英语人做出了更多的形状选择，尽管他们都主要根据分类或功能相似性对物体进行分类。说中文的人对形状的依赖与接触中文的量有关。研究结果为语言影响分类的观点提供了证据，或者说是沃尔夫假说的一种弱形式。研究结果也质疑了人们普遍认为的所有分类器语言的说话者在分类中较少关注形状的观点。
Chinese is a language that classifies nouns into groups on the basis of shape, material, and size. We asked whether the classification of nouns by shape affects the degree to which Chinese speakers rely on shape when classifying objects. Three experiments examined the degree to which Chinese- and English-speaking adults rely on shape versus taxonomic or functional similarity in a classification task. Across all three experiments, Chinese speakers made significantly more shape choices than English speakers though they both mostly classified objects on the basis of taxonomic or functional similarity. Reliance on shape by speakers of Chinese was correlated with amount of exposure to Chinese. The results offer evidence in support of the idea that language influences categorization, or a weak form of the Whorf Hypothesis. The results also call into question the widely-held belief that speakers of all classifier languages pay less attention to shape in classification.
影响因子：
4.6
作者：
GELMAN, SA;MARKMAN, EM
通讯作者：
MARKMAN, EM