Comprehending Complex Concepts
Comprehending Complex Concepts
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理解复杂的概念
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1988
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G. Murphy
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G. Murphy
摘要 最近的概念理论提出了人们如何将简单概念（如发动机和维修）组合成复杂概念（如发动机维修）的问题。本文通过询问人们如何理解此类修饰名词短语来解决这个问题。对如何理解复杂概念的一种解释（特征加权模型）提供了一种简单的机制，其中修改概念的主要特征在修改后的概念中变得更加突出。另一种解释侧重于世界知识如何指导组合过程。比较这两种解释解释各种名词短语的能力。报告了两个评估特征加权模型对形容词-名词短语的预测的实验。这些对比表明，组合过程确实需要参考世界知识。讨论了接受此类帐户的后果。
Abstract Recent theories of concepts have raised the issue of how people combine simple concepts (like engine and repair ) to form complex concepts (like engine repair ). This article approaches this issue by asking how people comprehend modified noun phrases of this sort. One explanation of how complex concepts are understood (the feature weighting model) provides a simple mechanism in which the primary feature of the modifying concept is made more salient in the modified concept. nother explanation focuses on how world knowledge directs the combination process. The two explanations are compared in their ability to account for the interpretation of various kinds of noun phrases. Two experiments are reported which evaluate the feature weighting model's predictions for adjective-noun phrases. These contrasts suggest that the combination process does require reference to world knowledge. The consequences of accepting such an account are discussed.