关于心理词典词条下语义存储问题的理论思考  

Questions Concerning Semantic Information Under Mental Lexicon Entries

作　　者：刘利民[1] LIU Limin

机构地区：[1]四川大学外国语学院英文系,四川成都610064

出　　处：《英语研究》2020年第2期96-105,共10页English Studies

摘　　要：心理语言学一般认为心理词典中每一词条下存储着该语词的语音、句法和语义信息。其中关于语义存储的假设遇到理论困境,也与经验证据不协调:(1)意义整体论可能使得超语义存储观出现逻辑矛盾;(2)本质特征知识或文本词典定义可能都不是心理词典中语词的意义;(3)语词的意义存储与其语形存储可能是分离的。要说明心理词典中词形与词义问题,最重要的应当是对一般思想意义与语言本身的意义做一个区分。Generally, psycholinguistics claims that a word entry in the mental lexicon contains the phonetic, syntactic and semantic information of the word. But the hypothesis concerning semantic information storage runs into theoretical dilemma and appears incoherent with empirical evidence:(1)meaning holism may render this the hypothesis logically self-negating;(2)neither knowledge about essential property nor ordinary dictionary definition can serve as the meaning of a word in the mental lexicon;and(3)the storage of the semantic information of a word and its grammatical information may well be separated. To understand the relationship between word form and meaning in the mental lexicon, we should distinguish the general meaning of thought from the meaning of language per se.

关 键 词：心理词典 词条 语义存储 意义难题 

分 类 号：H06[语言文字—语言学]