Learnability of ideophones

Last updated on 26 Feb 2021
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Zhuge Liangjingjing

In this project, we investigate the learnability of ideophones, studied through articulatory and gesticulatory gestures.

Apart from myself, team members include Dr. Youngah Do, Dr. Mark Dingemanse and Dr. Arthur Lewis Thompson.

ideophones linguistics
Postdoctoral assistant (Linguistics)

My research interests include ideophones, (Premodern) Chinese, historical linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, and lexical semantics.

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