Naming the Animals that Come to Mind: Effects of Culture and Experience on Category Fluency
Naming the Animals that Come to Mind: Effects of Culture and Experience on Category Fluency
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命名想到的动物：文化和经验对类别流畅性的影响
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2010
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N. Ross
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Nathan Winkler;D. Medin;S. Waxman;Jennie Woodring;N. Ross
本文从跨文化发展的角度考察了动物范畴的语义结构。来自三个北美社区（城市多数文化，农村多数文化和农村印第安人）的儿童和成人被提示生成动物名称，并分析结果列表的潜在维度以及特定动物名称的典型性或显著性。动物类别的语义结构在不同的文化群体中似乎是一致的，但动物种类的相对显著性随着文化和与自然世界的第一手经验的作用而变化。这些结果为不同文化中动物的共同表征提供了证据，但也表明了文化在塑造动物概念方面的作用。
This article considers the semantic structure of the animal category from a cross-cultural developmental perspective. Children and adults from three North American communities (urban majority culture, rural majority culture and rural Native American) were prompted to generate animal names, and the resulting lists were analyzed for their underlying dimensionality and for the typicality or salience of specific animal names. The semantic structure of the animal category appeared to be consistent across cultural groups, but the relative salience of animal kinds varied as a function of culture and first-hand experience with the natural world. These results provide evidence of a shared representation of animals across disparate cultures but also indicate a role for culture in shaping animal concepts.