SHAPE CLASSIFIERS IN MANDARIN AND TAIWANESE -- A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE

國台語中的形狀類別詞－心理語言學透視

連金發(Chinfa Lien) ； 王本瑛(Penying Wang)

《Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series》 13期 (1999/04) Pp. 189-221

摘要

This paper presents a quantitative study of two sets of sortal shape classifiers carrying respectively the semantic feature of [spherical] and [long] in Mandarin and Taiwanese from a psycholinguistic perspective. The first set of shape classifiers consists of ke 棵 and 粒 li in Mandarin and liap 粒 in Taiwanese, while the second set comprises zhi 枝, tiau 條 and gen 根 in Mandarin and ki 枝 and tiau 條 in Taiwanese . A pycholinguistic experiment conducted on two groups of 20 subjects reveals in quantitative terms patterns of intersection of shape classifiers in each set. We also compare these two sets of classifers in Mandarin and Taiwanese in terms of semantic features and try to bring the choice of classifiers to bear on the linguistic background of subjects.

並列摘要

本文從心理語言學的角度對國語和台語中兩組形狀類別詞做定量分析，這兩組類別詞分別具有〔球形〕和〔長形〕的語意徵性。第一組包括國語的“棵”，“粒＂和台語的“粒＂，第二組包括國語的“枝＂，“條”，“根＂和台語的“枝”，“條”。我們對兩組的二十個受測者做了心理語言學的試驗，並根據檢測的結果對每組中類別詞之間的交集類型做定量的表述和分析。本文也根據語意徴性比較國台語中這兩組的類别詞，並從受測者的語言背景來討論類別詞的選擇。