The Influence of Scale, Context and Spatial Preposition in Linguistic Topology
The Influence of Scale, Context and Spatial Preposition in Linguistic Topology
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尺度、语境和空间介词对语言拓扑的影响
DOI：
10.1007/978-3-540-75666-8_25
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发表时间：
2006
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Eric Pederson
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作者：
A. Lautenschütz;C. Davies;M. Raubal;A. Schwering;Eric Pederson
采用Mark and Egenhofer（1994）的实验方法，考察了规模、语境和空间关系类型对空间介词可接受性的影响。结果表明，以前的假设尺度不变性的空间语言是不正确的。人类所经历的物质世界，以及人类语言所描述的物质世界，并不是一个分形：尺度似乎改变了它的物理性质，因此也改变了它的空间关系的意义。实验证明了规模如何影响介词的使用，以及不同的介词如何引起不同程度的可接受性。在物体类型（固体或液体）方面，上下文与这些因素相互作用，以展示对空间语言使用的特定限制。结果进行了讨论的图形-背景关系，以及人类经验的作用和世界的分类成“对象”在不同的方式在不同的尺度。由于这是一个初步的和人工约束的实验，需要进一步的研究强调。
Following a similar method to that of Mark and Egenhofer (1994), a questionnaire-based experiment tested for possible effects of scale, context and spatial relation type on the acceptability of spatial prepositions. The results suggest that the previous assumption of scale invariance in spatial language is incorrect. The physical world as experienced by humans, and described by human language, is not a fractal: scale appears to change its very physical nature, and hence the meaning of its spatial relations. The experiment demonstrated how scale influences preposition use, and how different prepositions appeared to evoke different levels of acceptability in themselves. Context, in terms of object type (solid or liquid), interacted with these factors to demonstrate specific constraints upon spatial language use. The results are discussed in terms of figure-ground relations, as well as the role of human experience and the classification of the world into 'objects' in different ways at different scales. Since this was a preliminary and artificially-constrained experiment, the need for further research is emphasized.