Persistence Conditions of Institutional Entities: Investigating Copredication Through a Forced-Choice Experiment

The conditions under which certain complex polysemous nominals can sustain coherent sense relations (informally, can “survive”) is investigated through a two-alternative forced choice experiment. Written scenarios were constructed which permitted copredication, through which multiple, semantically d...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	Elliot Murphy
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	copredication polysemy pragmatics ship of theseus persistence conditions forced choice experiment Psychology BF1-990
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/779dbd3ea86f400e84ebe4058fa4b836
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:779dbd3ea86f400e84ebe4058fa4b836
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:779dbd3ea86f400e84ebe4058fa4b8362021-12-01T16:46:27ZPersistence Conditions of Institutional Entities: Investigating Copredication Through a Forced-Choice Experiment1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.528862https://doaj.org/article/779dbd3ea86f400e84ebe4058fa4b8362021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.528862/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078The conditions under which certain complex polysemous nominals can sustain coherent sense relations (informally, can “survive”) is investigated through a two-alternative forced choice experiment. Written scenarios were constructed which permitted copredication, through which multiple, semantically different sense types are associated with a single nominal. Participants were presented with two scenarios involving a polysemous nominal (e.g., bank, city) and had to select which scenario (and, hence, which combination of predicates) appeared to be the most prototypical, faithful realization of the nominal. In order to achieve this, an additional manipulation was added, such that the number of senses hosted by each forced choice was either equal (2 senses choice vs. 2 senses choice) or unequal (1 sense choice vs. 2/3 senses choice). In order to address certain concerns in the literature about prototypicality, a core question addressed was whether the institutional sense of the nominals strongly determined the option chosen by participants, or whether the number of senses more strongly predicted this. It was found that the best predictor of sense “survival” was not sense frequency, but rather sense complexity or approximation to the institutional sense.Elliot MurphyElliot MurphyElliot MurphyFrontiers Media S.A.articlecopredicationpolysemypragmaticsship of theseuspersistence conditionsforced choice experimentPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	copredication polysemy pragmatics ship of theseus persistence conditions forced choice experiment Psychology BF1-990
spellingShingle	copredication polysemy pragmatics ship of theseus persistence conditions forced choice experiment Psychology BF1-990 Elliot Murphy Elliot Murphy Elliot Murphy Persistence Conditions of Institutional Entities: Investigating Copredication Through a Forced-Choice Experiment
description	The conditions under which certain complex polysemous nominals can sustain coherent sense relations (informally, can “survive”) is investigated through a two-alternative forced choice experiment. Written scenarios were constructed which permitted copredication, through which multiple, semantically different sense types are associated with a single nominal. Participants were presented with two scenarios involving a polysemous nominal (e.g., bank, city) and had to select which scenario (and, hence, which combination of predicates) appeared to be the most prototypical, faithful realization of the nominal. In order to achieve this, an additional manipulation was added, such that the number of senses hosted by each forced choice was either equal (2 senses choice vs. 2 senses choice) or unequal (1 sense choice vs. 2/3 senses choice). In order to address certain concerns in the literature about prototypicality, a core question addressed was whether the institutional sense of the nominals strongly determined the option chosen by participants, or whether the number of senses more strongly predicted this. It was found that the best predictor of sense “survival” was not sense frequency, but rather sense complexity or approximation to the institutional sense.
format	article
author	Elliot Murphy Elliot Murphy Elliot Murphy
author_facet	Elliot Murphy Elliot Murphy Elliot Murphy
author_sort	Elliot Murphy
title	Persistence Conditions of Institutional Entities: Investigating Copredication Through a Forced-Choice Experiment
title_short	Persistence Conditions of Institutional Entities: Investigating Copredication Through a Forced-Choice Experiment
title_full	Persistence Conditions of Institutional Entities: Investigating Copredication Through a Forced-Choice Experiment
title_fullStr	Persistence Conditions of Institutional Entities: Investigating Copredication Through a Forced-Choice Experiment
title_full_unstemmed	Persistence Conditions of Institutional Entities: Investigating Copredication Through a Forced-Choice Experiment
title_sort	persistence conditions of institutional entities: investigating copredication through a forced-choice experiment
publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/779dbd3ea86f400e84ebe4058fa4b836
work_keys_str_mv	AT elliotmurphy persistenceconditionsofinstitutionalentitiesinvestigatingcopredicationthroughaforcedchoiceexperiment AT elliotmurphy persistenceconditionsofinstitutionalentitiesinvestigatingcopredicationthroughaforcedchoiceexperiment AT elliotmurphy persistenceconditionsofinstitutionalentitiesinvestigatingcopredicationthroughaforcedchoiceexperiment
_version_	1718404758383886336

Persistence Conditions of Institutional Entities: Investigating Copredication Through a Forced-Choice Experiment

Ejemplares similares