This paper addresses creativity as inhibition of repetitive behaviour. We argue that entrenchment and constructional change can be in competition with large-scale creative attempts of recomposition of constructions’ internal constituency. After undergoing chunking, the recurrent usage of a construction may be significantly counterbalanced with new attempts of entrenchment inhibition (viz. inhibition of entrenchment). These are cases where speakers opt for more compositional and less predictable ways to express a similar meaning of a conventionalised form. We focus on the constructionalisation of noun–participle compounds (e.g. snow-covered) in the Historical Corpus of American English. During the second part of the twentieth century, speakers increasingly inhibit the usage of conventionalised noun phrase–past participle forms in favour of more compositional strategies involving the same internal constituents. This entails that constructional change not only affects the meaning of the chunk that undergoes constructionalisation but also the way speakers creatively rediscover its internal constituency. These results additionally aim to inform research in cognitive architectures and artificial intelligence, where creativity is often merely considered as a problem-solving mechanism rather than a potential process of inhibition of automatised behaviour.

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抑制拘泥：结构变化和重复行为可能与大规模的“重组”创造力竞争

本文将创造力视为抑制重复性行为。我们认为，固守和建筑变革可能与建筑内部选区重组的大规模创造性尝试竞争。进行分块后，建筑的经常使用可能会通过新尝试的防ent制（即抑制防significantly制）得到显着抵消。在这些情况下，演讲者选择更多的成分和更难以预测的方式来表达常规形式的相似含义。我们专注于美国英语历史语料库中名词分词复合物（例如冰雪覆盖）的结构化。在二十世纪下半叶，演讲者越来越多地禁止使用常规化的名词短语-过去分词形式，而倾向于采用涉及相同内部成分的更多构图策略。这意味着结构上的变化不仅会影响进行结构化的部分的含义，而且还会影响演讲者创造性地重新发现其内部组成部分的方式。这些结果还旨在为认知架构和人工智能方面的研究提供信息，在这些领域中，创造力通常仅被视为解决问题的机制，而不是抑制自动化行为的潜在过程。这意味着结构上的变化不仅会影响进行结构化的部分的含义，还会影响演讲者创造性地重新发现其内部组成部分的方式。这些结果还旨在为认知架构和人工智能方面的研究提供信息，其中创造力通常仅被视为解决问题的机制，而不是抑制自动化行为的潜在过程。这意味着结构上的变化不仅会影响进行结构化的部分的含义，而且还会影响演讲者创造性地重新发现其内部组成部分的方式。这些结果还旨在为认知架构和人工智能方面的研究提供信息，其中创造力通常仅被视为解决问题的机制，而不是抑制自动化行为的潜在过程。