The main goal of my PhD is to describe the development of Chinese ideophones from three perspectives: form, meaning, and use. This is a rather vague and big research topic, which is why I divide my work in sub projects, that eventually should glide into one coherent whole.
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Defense against the Dark Art
This is part two in my series that comprises the last 1.5 years of my candidature in linguistics at NTU. The first part, #dissertating, can be found here. This installment
Hashtag Dissertating
As I’m about to do the final revisions on my dissertation, I have started reminiscing about my PhD trajectory. I envision myself writing a trilogy (or tetralogy) of posts that
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Reduplication as a trigger of intersubjectivity: Mandarin Chinese ideophones and reduplication in the CHILDES corpora
How do Chinese children acquire ideophones and reduplication?
10 Aug 2019 14:30
Kwansei Gakuin Daigaku 関西学院大学
Thomas Van Hoey & Chiarung Lu
Radiant suns, burning fires and brilliant flowers: The onomasiology and radical support of Chinese literary LIGHT ideophones
Do radicals in the formal written variation of ideophones play a big role?
7 Aug 2019 11:30
Kwansei Gakuin Daigaku 関西学院大学
Thomas Van Hoey
Defining Chinese ideophones: A family of constructions
MCA helps us to tackle the prototypically structure of the ideophone category in Chinese
2 Aug 2019 14:30
Nanzan University, Nagoya 南山大学
Thomas Van Hoey
Bridging phonology, meaning, and written form across time: introducing CHIDEOD, a database of Chinese literary ideophones
With an open source database of ideophones we can address a multitude of issues regarding Chinese ideophones.
5 May 2019 10:30
Lund University
Thomas Van Hoey & Arthur Lewis Thompson