ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2005, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (1): 17-26.

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Theories Review on Conceptual Combination

Liu Ye,Fu Xiaolan   

  1. 1Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 2Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039
  • Received:2004-08-05 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2005-01-15 Published:2005-01-15
  • Contact: Fu Xiaolan

Abstract: Conceptual combination involves accessing two or more concepts and forms a new concept termed combined concept. Previous research focused on how people understand noun-noun combined concepts and the related factors on interpretation strategy. There are many models, such as Competition Among Relations in Nominals Theory, Dual-Process Theory, and Constraint Theory. These theories explained well specific experimental phenomena, however, they failed to explain some stable phenomena, such as emergent feature and category effect. This article proposes that the future research should integrate all the existent experimental phenomena and theories, focus on the time course of conceptual combination, further investigate the role of context, and systemically study emergent feature and category effect of conceptual combination.

Key words: conceptual combination, combined concept, relation, schema, pragmatics, category specificity.

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