A study on lexical ambiguity in mandarin Chinese

Jia Fei Hong

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_39

A study on lexical ambiguity in mandarin Chinese

Jia Fei Hong^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Chinese as a Second Language

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Abstract

This study explored lexical ambiguity in Mandarin Chinese. Previous studies have concentrated on the lexical ambiguity resolution of nouns and verbs in the sentential context, while others presented different results for ambiguity resolution in English and Italian. Based on [1] study, which focused on the cognitive processing of strong bias words in the sentential context, the current study proposed two modular and interactive hypotheses and designed two experiments—a production test and a YES-NO test—to distinguish lexical and metaphorical bias found in Mandarin Chinese. This article would present the results of the two experiments, followed by a discussion of the related senses of lexical ambiguity in Mandarin Chinese.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Chinese Lexical Semantics - 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Qi Su, Jiun-Shiung Wu, Jia-Fei Hong
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	467-477
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	9783030040147
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_39
Publication status	Published - 2018 Jan 1
Event	19th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2018 - Minxiong, Taiwan Duration: 2018 May 26 → 2018 May 28

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	11173 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	19th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2018
Country/Territory	Taiwan
City	Minxiong
Period	2018/05/26 → 2018/05/28

Keywords

Lexical ambiguity
Literal senses
Mandarin Chinese
Metaphorical senses

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Science(all)

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Hong, J. F. (2018). A study on lexical ambiguity in mandarin Chinese. In Q. Su, J-S. Wu, & J-F. Hong (Eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics - 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 467-477). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11173 LNAI). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_39

A study on lexical ambiguity in mandarin Chinese. / Hong, Jia Fei.

Chinese Lexical Semantics - 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Qi Su; Jiun-Shiung Wu; Jia-Fei Hong. Springer Verlag, 2018. p. 467-477 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11173 LNAI).

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Hong, JF 2018, A study on lexical ambiguity in mandarin Chinese. in Q Su, J-S Wu & J-F Hong (eds), Chinese Lexical Semantics - 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 11173 LNAI, Springer Verlag, pp. 467-477, 19th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2018, Minxiong, Taiwan, 2018/05/26. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_39

Hong JF. A study on lexical ambiguity in mandarin Chinese. In Su Q, Wu J-S, Hong J-F, editors, Chinese Lexical Semantics - 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Verlag. 2018. p. 467-477. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_39

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