This research contrasts two hypotheses concerning componential storage of meaning . The Complexity Hypothesis assumed by Fodor (The language of thought,NY : Crowell, 1975), Kintsch (The representation of meaning in memory, Hillsdale, NJ : Erlbaum, 1974), and Thorndyke (Conceptual complexity and imagery in comprehension and memory.Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975, 14, 359-369) states that a word with many semantic components will require more processing resources, comprehension time, and long-term memory space than a word with few components, and thus will interfere more with memory for surrounding words. This memory prediction was tested against an alternative prediction based on connectivity . The Connectivity Hypothesis views verb semantic structures as frames for sentence representation and states that memory strength between two nouns in a sentence increases with the number of underlying verb subpredicates that connect the nouns . Thus, the Complexity Hypothesis predicts that a verb with many subpredicates will lead to poorer memory strength between the surrounding nouns than a verb with few subpredicates, while the Connectivity Hypothesis predicts that verbs with many subpredicates will lead togreatermemory strength between nouns in cases when the additional subpredicates provide semantic connections between the nouns . In three experiments, subjects recalled subject-verb-object sentences, given subject nouns as cues. General verbs, with relatively few subpredicates, were compared with more specific verbs whose additional subpredicates either did or did not provide additional connections between the surrounding nouns . The level of recall of the object noun, given the subject noun as cue, was predicted by the relative number ofconnectingsubpredicates in the verb, but not by the relative number of subpredicates . This finding supports the Connectivity Hypothesis over the Complexity Hypothesis. These results are interpreted in terms of a model in which the verb conveys a structured set of subpredicates that provides a connective framework for sentence memory. The idea that word meanings have componential structures has a long history in western thought. The analysis of concepts into more basic concepts has been a tradition in philosophy at least since Socrates and Aristotle. More recently, componential representation has been an important theoretical idea for anthropologists (e .g.,Romney & d'Andrade,

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句子记忆中的动词语义结构：成分表征的证据

本研究对比了关于意义成分存储的两个假设。Fodor（思想语言，纽约：Crowell，1975）、Kintsch（记忆中意义的表示，新泽西州希尔斯代尔：Erlbaum，1974）和 Thorndyke（理解和记忆中的概念复杂性和意象）假设的复杂性假设。 of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975, 14, 359-369) 指出，具有许多语义成分的单词将需要更多的处理资源、理解时间和长期记忆空间，因此会比具有较少语义成分的单词产生更多干扰。具有对周围单词的记忆。该记忆预测针对基于连通性的替代预测进行了测试。连接假说将动词语义结构视为句子表示的框架，并指出句子中两个名词之间的记忆强度随着连接名词的潜在动词子谓词的数量增加而增加。因此，复杂性假设预测，与子谓词较少的动词相比，具有许多子谓词的动词会导致周围名词之间的记忆强度更差，而连接假设预测，具有许多子谓词的动词将导致名词之间的记忆强度更大子谓词提供名词之间的语义联系。在三个实验中，受试者回忆主语-动词-宾语句子，并给出主语名词作为线索。一般动词，子谓词相对较少，与更具体的动词进行比较，后者的附加子谓词在周围名词之间提供或不提供附加连接。以主语名词为线索，对宾语名词的回忆水平由动词中连接子谓词的相对数量预测，而不是由子谓词的相对数量预测。这一发现支持了复杂性假设上的连通性假设。这些结果是根据一个模型来解释的，在该模型中，动词传达了一组结构化的子谓词，为句子记忆提供了一个连接框架。词义具有成分结构的观点在西方思想中有着悠久的历史。至少自苏格拉底和亚里士多德以来，将概念分析为更基本的概念一直是哲学的传统。最近，