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Flexibility in Language and Thought.

Harvard University.

Flexibility in Language and Thought.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
書名/作者:	Flexibility in Language and Thought.
作者:	Srinivasan, Mahesh.
面頁冊數:	226 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-04, Section: B, page: 2469.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-04B.
標題:	Language, Linguistics.
標題:	Psychology, Developmental.
標題:	Psychology, Cognitive.
ISBN:	9781124500614
摘要、提要註:	Many words can be used flexibly: a book can be physically heavy, but also have provocative content, a chicken might live in a coop, but could also be tasty to eat. What do the uses of polysemous words such as these reveal about the structure of language and thought?
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3446160

Flexibility in Language and Thought.
Srinivasan, Mahesh.

Flexibility in Language and Thought. - 226 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-04, Section: B, page: 2469.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2011.

Many words can be used flexibly: a book can be physically heavy, but also have provocative content, a chicken might live in a coop, but could also be tasty to eat. What do the uses of polysemous words such as these reveal about the structure of language and thought?

ISBN: 9781124500614Subjects--Topical Terms:

423211
Language, Linguistics.

Flexibility in Language and Thought.
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520 $a Paper 1 examined 4-year-old children's representations of polysemous words like book. After being taught a novel word to refer to one of these words' meanings, children understood an extension to the other meaning, suggesting that the meanings rely on a common representational base. However, children did not extend a novel word between homophonous meanings (e.g., between bat[baseball] and bat[animal], suggesting they are represented as separate words. Paper 2 examined children's representations of the meanings of words like chicken, which, unlike the meanings of book, refer to different physical entities and are encountered in distinct contexts. Children understood extensions between the meanings of these words, while rejecting extensions between conceptually related meanings that are not polysemous (e.g., between chicken and egg). Children were also able to generalize polysemous relations to novel cases, predicting how the novel meanings of novel words can and cannot shift.
520 $a This early abstract knowledge of polysemous relations could arise from experience using polysemous words, or could be independent of linguistic experience and follow directly from flexible conceptual structures. Paper 3 focused on a specific case of polysemy: the uses of words like long to describe both spatial length and temporal duration. Adult participants were better able to access a structural similarity between length and duration than one between length and loudness, suggesting that the uses of long reveal functional overlap between representations of length and duration. Nine-month-old infants showed the same pattern of results, suggesting that this functional overlap is not constructed because of learning to flexibly use words like long, but might instead constrain children's expectations about how those words can be used.
520 $a The findings of this dissertation are discussed as they bear on the representational basis of flexible language and the interaction between flexibility in language and in thought.
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