Categorisation, communication and the local environment

分类、沟通和当地环境

• 批准号: FT190100200
• 负责人: Prof Charles Kemp
• 金额: $ 69.65万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2020-05-08 至 2024-05-07
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT190100200
• 关键词: Categorisation; communication; local; environment

Languages around the world incorporate different systems of categories, and understanding this variation can contribute to a better understanding of similarities and differences between cultures. This project examines how linguistic variation is shaped in part by variation in the local physical and social environment. The methods include computational analyses of large electronic data sets including dictionaries and linguistic corpora that have become available only recently, and psychological experiments that probe the causal mechanisms that lead to variation across languages. The outcomes include computational tools that pick out key differences between languages and therefore support cross-cultural communication.

世界各地的语言包含不同的分类系统，理解这种变化有助于更好地理解文化之间的相似性和差异。这个项目探讨了语言变异是如何部分地由当地的物理和社会环境的变化形成的。 这些方法包括对大型电子数据集（包括最近才出现的词典和语言语料库）进行计算分析，以及探索导致语言差异的因果机制的心理实验。结果包括计算工具，找出语言之间的关键差异，从而支持跨文化交流。