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Linguistic Synaesthesia of Mandarin Sensory Adjectives: Corpus-Based and Experimental Approaches

Authors : Qingqing Zhao, Yunfei Long, Chu-Ren Huang

Published in: Chinese Lexical Semantics

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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This study examines linguistic synaesthesia based on both the corpus distribution and the modality rating of Mandarin synaesthetic adjectives. We find that the tendencies attested through the corpus-based and the experimental approaches are compatible, including: (1) the modality exclusivity is negatively correlated with the usage of Mandarin sensory adjectives in linguistic synaesthesia; and (2) the ratings on sensory modalities of Mandarin synaesthetic adjectives are consistent with the synaesthetic directionality of these adjectives. The paper thus argues for the cognitive reality of linguistic synaesthesia, which can be evidenced by both the language production in the corpus and the language processing in the behavior experiment.

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Title: Linguistic Synaesthesia of Mandarin Sensory Adjectives: Corpus-Based and Experimental Approaches
Authors: Qingqing Zhao
Yunfei Long
Chu-Ren Huang
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Chinese Lexical Semantics
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-38188-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-38189-9

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_14

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