A Study on Native Mandarin Speakers’ Homogeneity of Degree Adverbs and Adjectives

Huichen S. Hsiao; Yunhan Wang; Anwei Yu

doi:10.1007/978-981-97-0583-2_1

A Study on Native Mandarin Speakers’ Homogeneity of Degree Adverbs and Adjectives

Huichen S. Hsiao^*, Yunhan Wang, Anwei Yu

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Department of Chinese as a Second Language

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Abstract

This study aims to investigate whether scale and polarity affect the semantic acceptability of native Mandarin speakers in terms of the collocation between degree adverbs and adjectives via a native corpus analysis and a forced-choice language sense task administered to native Mandarin speakers from Taiwan. The preliminary results of the acceptability judgment task indicate that most absolute adjectives are context-independent and can stably collocate with degree adverbs, which align with the corpus study results. However, some factors were found to affect the semantic acceptability of native Mandarin speakers, such as context, subjective differences and cognitive asymmetry.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Chinese Lexical Semantics - 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Minghui Dong, Jia-Fei Hong, Jingxia Lin, Peng Jin
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	3-10
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9789819705825
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0583-2_1
Publication status	Published - 2024
Event	24th Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics, CLSW 2023 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 2023 May 19 → 2023 May 21

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	14514 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	24th Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics, CLSW 2023
Country/Territory	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	2023/05/19 → 2023/05/21

Keywords

Degree Adverb-Adjective Collocations
Polarity
Scalarity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Hsiao, H. S., Wang, Y., & Yu, A. (2024). A Study on Native Mandarin Speakers’ Homogeneity of Degree Adverbs and Adjectives. In M. Dong, J.-F. Hong, J. Lin, & P. Jin (Eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics - 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 3-10). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14514 LNAI). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0583-2_1

A Study on Native Mandarin Speakers’ Homogeneity of Degree Adverbs and Adjectives. / Hsiao, Huichen S.; Wang, Yunhan; Yu, Anwei.
Chinese Lexical Semantics - 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Minghui Dong; Jia-Fei Hong; Jingxia Lin; Peng Jin. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2024. p. 3-10 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14514 LNAI).

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Hsiao, HS, Wang, Y & Yu, A 2024, A Study on Native Mandarin Speakers’ Homogeneity of Degree Adverbs and Adjectives. in M Dong, J-F Hong, J Lin & P Jin (eds), Chinese Lexical Semantics - 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 14514 LNAI, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 3-10, 24th Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics, CLSW 2023, Singapore, Singapore, 2023/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0583-2_1

Hsiao HS, Wang Y, Yu A. A Study on Native Mandarin Speakers’ Homogeneity of Degree Adverbs and Adjectives. In Dong M, Hong JF, Lin J, Jin P, editors, Chinese Lexical Semantics - 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2024. p. 3-10. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-0583-2_1

Hsiao, Huichen S. ; Wang, Yunhan ; Yu, Anwei. / A Study on Native Mandarin Speakers’ Homogeneity of Degree Adverbs and Adjectives. Chinese Lexical Semantics - 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Minghui Dong ; Jia-Fei Hong ; Jingxia Lin ; Peng Jin. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2024. pp. 3-10 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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