语义表达在整个生命周期中都会更新,反映出语言的变化
1Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA.
Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science
|January 7, 2026
概括
个人在一生中不断更新单词的含义,无论年龄如何. 语义空间反映了当前的语言使用,而不是历史意义,这表明了快速的词汇-语义表示更新.
科学领域:
- 认知心理学 认知心理学
- 计算语言学 计算语言学
- 心理语言学 心理语言学
背景情况:
- 人类的语义记忆是由语言上下文所塑造的.
- 语言的使用和词的含义随着时间的推移而演变.
- 个别的语义空间可能保留历史语言的痕迹或动态更新.
研究的目的:
- 调查单个语义空间是否与历史语言变化或当前使用情况保持一致.
- 为了确定年龄是否影响保留历史词语含义.
- 检查整个生命周期内语义空间更新的速度和性质.
主要方法:
- 利用双动词嵌入 (HistWords) 来建模语言的意义变化.
- 将不同年龄群体的语义空间与历史和当代人体进行比较.
- 收集了年轻和年长的成年人对变化意义的单词的词语相关性判断.
主要成果:
- 无论是年轻人还是老年人的语义空间都与最近的语言群体有很强的相关性.
- 很少有证据表明,老年人比年轻人更能保留历史意义空间.
- 个别的语义表征迅速更新,在很大程度上用新意义取代旧意义.
结论:
- 词汇-语义表征在整个生命中都会不断更新,不论年龄如何.
- 最近的语言经验主要塑造了当前的词语含义.
- 早期学到的单词含义在很大程度上被当代语言使用模式所取代.
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