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Semantic Priming Effect of Korean Lexical Ambiguity: A Comparison of Homonymy and Polysemy (한국어의 어휘적 중의성의 의미점화효과: 동음이의어와 다의어의 비교)

  • Yu, Gi-Soon;Nam, Ki-Chun
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.63-73
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    • 2009
  • The present study was conducted to explore how the processing of lexical ambiguity between homonymy and polysemy differs from each other, and whether the representation of mental lexicon was separated from each lexical ambiguity by a semantic priming paradigm. Homonymy (M1 means the literal meaning of '사과', i.e. apple and M2 means another literal meaning of '사과', i.e. apologize) was used in Experiment I, and polysemy (M2 means the literal meaning of '바람', i.e. wind and M2 means the figurative meaning of '바람', i.e. wanton) was used in Experiment 2. The results of both experiments showed that a significant semantic priming effect occurs regardless of the type of ambiguities (homonymy and polysemy) and the difference of their semantic processes. However, the semantic priming effect for polysemy was larger than that for homonymy. This result supports the hypothesis that the semantic process of homonymy is different from that of polysemy.

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The Polysemy of Da3: An ontology-based lexical semantic study

  • Hong, Jia-Fei;Huang, Chu-Ren;Ahrens, Kathleen
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.155-162
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    • 2007
  • In this study, we explore the polysemy of da3 through the ontological conceptual structure found in SUMO. First, we divide several different senses for da3, clustering physical event senses and metaphorical event senses. In here, we only focus on physical event senses of da3. From the physical event senses of da3, we divide them into two main categories: 1) hit and 2) pump. We then use SUMO ontological concepts to identify these physical senses. Finally, we can observe the common patterns of the "hit" sense group and the "pump" sense group for da3.

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A Cognitive Analysis on the Polysemous Perception Verbs (영어 지각동사의 인지적 연구)

  • 지인영
    • Lingua Humanitatis
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    • v.5
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    • pp.265-289
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    • 2003
  • This paper deals with the polysemous phenomenon of perception verbs in terms of metaphor and metonymy and suggest a model of cognitive semantic structure for them. English perception verbs are often used for representing a mental, cognitive activity as well as representing a physical, perceptive activity. This paper looks for a basis for the polysemous use in the creative system of metaphor and metonymy, especially in the meaning extension function of mind-as-body metaphor. English perception verbs show a good example of a metaphor of domain transfer from physical domain to mental or cognitive domain. This paper suggests the conceptual chain and the semantic structure for the perception verb to show the possibility of polysemy and contextual modulation.

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New Interpretation on Intensification (된소리 현상의 새 분석)

  • Lee Mi-Jae
    • MALSORI
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    • no.25_26
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    • pp.27-37
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    • 1993
  • This paper deals with the nature and function of intensification in Korean in a wider scope of context which was not paid proper attention. Unobserved new areas of intensification are paid more attention like sound split of polysemy e.g. [s'eda], [kyongk'i] by n of intensification and north Korean application of intensification on [wonsu] and intensification of borrowed English. The recent phenomenon of 'gwua' intensification is experimented on two groups of people, young students and old people beyond 65 years old by means of sociolinguistic analysis. The result shows that its intensification is a form of student violent power and a mark of extreme solidarity among activist students. In conclusion, the nature of so called saisiot[t] e.g. intensification is voiceless tensed pause and its functions are the polarization of the original meaning of the word, sound split of polysemy and attachment of social values by intensification.

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어의의 기술 -중간언어의 관점에서

  • 장석진
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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    • 2001.06a
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    • pp.113-139
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    • 2001
  • 중간언어 (interlingua, IL) 구축을 지향하는 시각에서 단어의 다의성 (polysemy) 문제를 각종 워드넷의 기술 방식과 용례를 대비하여 논의하고, 센스(어의) 번호를 부착한 세계 워드넷 (Would Wordnet) 데이터베이스를 구상하고, 이 연장 선상에서 (Pustejvsky 식) 생성 어휘 부와 TMR(텍스트의미표상)이론을 가미한 제약기반 통합문법(CUG)으로 IL구축에 다리를 놓고, 이로부터 개별언어 기술로 변환한다.

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A Study on the Expressional Characteristics of Placeness by Information-platformization of Urban space (도시공간의 정보플랫폼화에 의한 장소성 표현 특성 연구)

  • Baek, Hyun-Hee;Lee, Chan
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.135-144
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    • 2011
  • This study starts from the question if the characteristic of existing conventional site-specificity can be applied to the modern city space in information media era as it is. The evolution and spread of media technology acted as the catalyst which establishes the identity of an individual and promotes the social sense of belonging as the new type of community member as well as expanded the communication territory of man. Moreover, as the perfect merge of third dimensional space with second dimensional media was accomplished, the meaning of city as the place is getting changed and extended to city space as the information platform which integrates and intermediates the various information composing city. Hereupon, this study is willing to analyze the limits which the characteristics of physical, active and meaningful elements which are the forming primary factors in the existing place theory have and establish the new meaning of city as the place through the case studies which are applied by the characteristics of hyper spacio-temporal, mobility and polysemy as the characteristics transformed by information platformization of city space.

The Structure of Polysemy: A study of multi-sense words based on WordNet

  • Lin, Jen-Yi;Yang, Chang-Hua;Tseng, Shu-Chuan;Huang, Chu-Ren
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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    • 2002.02a
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    • pp.320-329
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    • 2002
  • The issues in polysemy with respect to the verbs in WordNet will be discussed in this paper. The hypernymy/hyponymy structure of the multiple senses is observed when we try to build a bilingual network for Chinese and English. There are several types of polysemic patterns and a co-hypernym may have the same word form as its subordinates. Fellbaum (2000) dubbed autotroponymy that the verbs linked by mailer relation share the same verb form. However, her syntactic criteria seem not compatible to the hierarchies in WN. Either the criteria or the network should be reconducted. For most verbs in WN 1.7, polysemous relations are unlikely to extend over 3 levels of IS-A relation. Highly polysemous verbs are more complicated and may be involved in certain semantic structures. Semi-automatic sense grouping may be helpful for multimlinguital information retrieveal.

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The Psychological Reality of Intensification (경음화의 심리적 실체)

  • Lee Mi Jae
    • Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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    • 1996.10a
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    • pp.43-52
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    • 1996
  • This paper deals with the nature and function of intensification in Korean in a wider scope of intensification which was not paid proper attention including intensification in the initial position as well as middle position. Unobserved new areas of intensification in the initial position are paid more attention like sound split of polysemy e.g. (s'eda), (kyongk'i) by means of intensification and north Korean application of intensification on (wonsu) and intensification of borrowed English. The recent phenomenon of ‘gwua’ intensification is experimented on two groups of people, young students and old people beyond 65 years old by means of sociolinguistic analysis. The result shows that its intensification is a form of student violent power and a mark of extreme solidarity among activist students. Thirty three university students(male 16, female 17) are asked to explained to write the meanings(feelings or when to use, etc.) of the words which have normal form and intensified forms. The results show intensification attaches the meaning of ‘emphasis,’ to bring the extremely polarized emotion: samll to the smallest, exact to the perfect exactness, bad to the worst feeling. Four words are being split to express different meaning with the word intensified. In conclusion, the nature of so called saisiot(t) e.g. intensification is voiceless tensed pause and its functions are the polarization of the original meaning of the word, sound split of polysemy and attachment of social values by intensification.

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Semantic and Pragmatic Conditions for the Dative Alternation

  • Krifka, Manfred
    • Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.1-31
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    • 2004
  • This paper has revisited the dative alternation in English, and defended the so-called polysemy view. The paper has argued for a particular format of lexical representation, one that allows reference to events. In addition to the semantic conditions, the paper has argued that the DO and PO constructions also allow for different information structures.

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