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The synaesthetic data from the Sinica corpus shows that vision, hearing, and smell exhibit much lower degrees of synaesthetic participation than touch and taste in Mandarin (see Chap. 2). In addition, there are only four auditory adjectives and two olfactory adjectives identified with synaesthetic uses (see Chap. 2).
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Williams (1976) also established the transfer direction between color and dimension for English sensory adjectives, where dimension adjectives can transfer to color, but not vice versa. This study confirms that pattern for Mandarin sensory adjectives. Mandarin color adjectives do not transfer to dimension, while dimension adjectives do appear with color uses, such as 大红 da4 hong2 ‘bright red’ and 浅绿 qian3 lv4 ‘light green’. However, intra-sensory mappings are not the focus of this study, so they will not be discussed in depth.
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Zhao, Q. (2020). Mandarin Visual, Auditory, and Olfactory Adjectives. In: Embodied Conceptualization or Neural Realization. Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics, vol 10. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9315-1_5
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