We conducted free word association tasks on 145 items (phonologically and semantically controlled) and 22 speakers (13 women 9 men), which resulted in 3190 tokens. The stimuli and the responses of the participants have been coded for phonological information (IPA) and metadata (part-of-speech, sex of the participant, word frequency, polysemy, etc...). The primary idea was to compare the semantic and phonological distance between stimuli and responses, our hypothesis being that, in Mandarin, responses will have a stronger semantic relation than a phonological relation with the stimuli. However, when gathering the data, we already had the hypothesis verified in another paper we were writing in parallel. Therefore, we would like to re-use this data for another research. So far, we investigated the semantic distance between responses and stimuli and found an effect of frequency: Frequent words tend to generate responses that are more semantically similar. We don't find an effect of sex, part-of-speech, or polysemy. Nevertheless, we would like to ask suggestions as to what else could we look at in this data. Cooperative plans are welcome and could be developed together to publish a paper (or develop long-term cooperation).
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Développement, Neurocognition, Dysfonctionnements
Diversité Linguistique et ses Sources
