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

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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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We would like to thank The National Social Science Fund of China for the financial support on the project (No. 19CYY006).

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  1. Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

    Qingqing Zhao

  2. School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Yunfei Long

  3. Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

    Chu-Ren Huang

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Zhao, Q., Long, Y., Huang, CR. (2020). Linguistic Synaesthesia of Mandarin Sensory Adjectives: Corpus-Based and Experimental Approaches. In: Hong, JF., Zhang, Y., Liu, P. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_14

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