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[Ping Li]

There are articles on Chinese homonym processing and related noun-verb
homonyms, available on our website
at http://cogsci.richmond.edu/  that might be helpful:

Li, P., Shu, H., Yip, M., Y. Zhang, & Y. Tang. (2002). Lexical ambiguity
in sentence processing: Evidence from Chinese. In M. Nakayma (ed.)
Crosslinguistic Sentence Processing (pp. 111-129). Stanford, CA: Center
for the Study of Language and Information Publications.

Li, P., & Yip, M.C. (1998). Context effects and the processing of spoken
homophones. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 10,
223-243.

Li, P., Jin, Z., & Tan, L.H. (2004). Neural representations of nouns and
verbs in Chinese: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 21, 1533-1541.

Best wishes,

PL



> The following paper deals with the related issue of polysemy,
> and suggests that Chinese is more polysemous than English
> (which is in turn more polysemous than Italian).
>
> Hunt, E. and Agnoli, F. (1991). The Whorfian hypothesis: a
> cognitive psychology perspective. Psychological Review, 98,
> 377-389.
>
>
> I hope this is helpful,
>
> Ann
> In message <s0b6454f.052 at gwia.kki.org> "Michele Mazzocco"
> <mazzocco at kennedykrieger.org> writes:
>> Dear Info-childes,
>>
>> I am trying to find information regarding the relative frequency with
>> which homonyms occur in French, Spanish, or Chinese, relative to the
>> frequency in English. Or just the relative frequency of homonymy in
>> any of these languages.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Michele Mazzocco
>>
>>
>>
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