Gender identification in Chinese names
(2020) In Lingua 234.- Abstract
- In this paper we discuss a number of factors that bear on the question if a Chinese given name is more likely to refer to a female or a male. In some cases this can be determined (with some degree of confidence) – in others it cannot. We identify the relevant factors as 1) gender-identifying characters or radicals; 2) sound symbolism and 3) reduplication. We consider the relations between these factors, and test our predictions in a psycholinguistic experiment with native speakers, for both written and spoken Chinese.
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- author
- van de Weijer, Jeroen
; Ren, Guangyuan
; van de Weijer, Joost
LU
; Wei, Weiyun and Wang, Yumeng
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Lingua
- volume
- 234
- article number
- 102759
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85076549532
- ISSN
- 0024-3841
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.lingua.2019.102759
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 9923ec87-e001-4d17-83df-9844efceb51e
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- 2019-09-28 23:16:23
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