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Thomas Van Hoey

List of Publications

Refereed articles

  1. Van Hoey, Thomas, Matt. H. Gardner, Ruiming Ma & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. accepted. Unpredictable grammatical choices are not harder than predictable ones. Language Variation and Change.

  2. Van Hoey, Thomas, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Matt Hunt Gardner. Choice and complexity: Debunking the myth that absolute complexity invariably leads to relative complexity. accepted. Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads - special issue

  3. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2025. Dynamic extensions of iconic form-meaning mappings in visual media, viewed through a prismatic lens. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 22(2). 110-127.

  4. Van Hoey, Thomas*, Arthur Lewis Thompson*, Aaron Wing Cheung Chik & Youngah Do. 2025 (online). Iconic hand gestures from ideophones exhibit stability and emergent phonological properties: An iterated learning study. Cognitive Linguistics 36(2). 227-259. doi:10.1515/cog-2024-0033 * co-first authors

  5. Ma, Ruiming, Thomas Van Hoey & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. 2025. Isomorphism-inspired theorising about optionality and variation is unsupported by data from English grammar. English Language and Linguistics. 1-21. doi:10.1017/S1360674325000097.

  6. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2025. Waddling, wandering and waving: Literary Chinese ideophones and the Motion Semantic Grid. Cognitive Semantics (special issue on Talmyan motion semantics). 11(2). 1-29. doi:10.1163/23526416-bja10075.

  7. Sze, Samuel Sui Lung, Xiaoyu Yu, Thomas Van Hoey, Bingzi Yu & Youngah Do. 2025 (online). Bilinguals’ advantages in executive function: Learning phonotactics and alternation. Second Language Research. 1-30. doi: 10.1177/02676583251327097

  1. Yu, Xiaoyu, Thomas Van Hoey, Frank Lihui Tan, Baichen Du & Youngah Do. 2024. Tracking phonological regularities: Exploring the influence of learning mode and regularity locus in adult phonological learning. Linguistics Vanguard 10(1). 93-104. doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0050

  2. Thomas Van Hoey, Xiaoyu Yu, Tungle Pan & Youngah Do. 2024. What ratings and corpus data reveal about the vividness of Mandarin ABB words. Language and Cognition 16(4). 1674-1696. doi: 10.1017/langcog.2024.22

  3. Van Hoey, Thomas, Arthur Lewis Thompson, Youngah Do & Mark Dingemanse. 2023. Iconicity in ideophones: Guessing, memorizing, and reassessing. Cognitive Science e13268. 1-27. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13268

  4. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2023. ABB, a salient prototype of collocate-ideophone constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Cognitive Linguistics 34(1). 133-163. doi: 10.1515/cog-2022-0031

  5. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2022. The blending of bending: How we engage with the World of Avatar: The Last Airbender through memes. Metaphor and Symbol 37(3). 185–207. doi: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1973868

  6. Thompson, Arthur Lewis, Thomas Van Hoey & Youngah Do. 2021. Articulatory features of phonemes pattern to iconic meanings: Evidence from cross-linguistic ideophones. Cognitive Linguistics 32(4). 563-608. * doi: 10.1515/cog-2020-0055 *Editor’s choice for this issue

  7. Van Hoey, Thomas & Arthur Lewis Thompson. 2020. The Chinese Ideophone Database (CHIDEOD). Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 49(2). 136–167. doi: 10.1163/19606028-bja10006

  8. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2018. Does the thunder roll? Mandarin Chinese meteorological expressions and their iconicity. Cognitive Semantics 4(2). 230-259. doi: 10.1163/23526416-00402003

Book chapters

  1. Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Matt Hunt Gardner, Ruiming Ma & Thomas Van Hoey. accepted. Empirical accountability meets theorizing about language variation. in Cukor-Avila, Patrica, Sali A. Tagliamonte & Guy Bailey (eds.) Empirical accountability in variation linguistics: Taking the next step. Cambridge University Press.

  2. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2024. Onomatopoeia in Mandarin Chinese. In Lívia Körtvélyessy & Pavol Štekauer (eds.), Onomatopoeia in the world’s languages: A comparative handbook (Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics 10), 563–575. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783111053226-047.

  3. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2024. A semantic map for ideophones. In Thomas Fuyin Li (ed.), Handbook of Cognitive Semantics: Vol 2, 129–175. Leiden: Brill. preprint doi: 10.31219/osf.io/muhpd)

  4. Van Hoey, Thomas & Chiarung Lu. 2019. Lexical variation of ideophones in Chinese classics: Their implications in embodiment and migration. In Janice Fon (ed.), Dimensions of diffusion and diversity, 195–226. (Cognitive Linguistics Research 63). Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110610895

Publications under review

  1. Yu, Xiaoyu, Bingzi Yu, Thomas Van Hoey, Samuel Sui Lung Sze, Frank Lihui Tan, Tak Wang Li & Youngah Do. Phonetic substance reshapes phonological variation in language acquisition and language contact.

  2. Van Hoey, Thomas. Sound and lexical semantics. Cambridge handbook of lexical semantics (eds. Dirk Geeraerts & Dylan Glynn)

  3. Van Hoey, Thomas, Dan Dewey, Youngah Do. fNIR study on ideophone usage in Mandarin speakers.

Publications in preparation

  1. Van Hoey, Thomas, Ruiming Ma, Matt. H. Gardner & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. You know, like, op- optionality: Grammatical optionality does not trigger discourse markers nor repairs

  2. Van Hoey, Thomas. The lexical aspect of ideophones: A typological art as well as a Talmyan Croft

Theses

  1. PhD thesis Linguistics (grade: A+) 2020 Prototypicality and salience of Chinese ideophones: A cognitive and corpus linguistics approach 漢語擬聲(態)詞的原型與顯著特徵：以認知與語料庫語言學方法探討

  2. MA thesis Linguistics (grade: 17.4/20)2015 Ideophones in Middle Chinese: A typological study of a Tang dynasty poetic corpus

  1. MA thesis Sinology (grade: 18.6/20)2014 The Guwen yundong 古文运动 (Classical Prose Movement) during Tang and Song: Ideological as well as Stylistic Innovation?

Resources and data sets

  1. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2019. The Chinese ideophone database (CHIDEOD). CHIDEOD is accessible in .xlsx, .csv, .rds formats (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/KPWGF), as well as through a Shiny app interface.