Reduplicative constructions in Mandarin: Socio-emotional profiling through distributional semantics
Mandarin Chinese has two productive reduplicative constructions that repeat either two-character base words or their constituents (e.g., `in good health', `discuss a bit'). Their varied meanings have been described as realizing plurality, valence coloring, sound symbolism and pragmatic functions. The aim of this study is twofold. A first goal is to clarify whether it is possible to come to a more precise understanding of the variegated semantics of Mandarin reduplication by using word embeddings from distributional semantics. A second goal is to explore how useful embeddings are for understanding the details of a semantically complex word-formation process. We show that the embedding spac...
| Authors | Chaoyi Wu, Yu-Hsiang Tseng, R. Harald Baayen |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 15 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 15 September 2026 |
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