CHIDEOD - The Chinese Ideophone Database
Project description
One important aspect of my PhD research consisted of collecting Chinese ideophones (or candidates of that category) in a central place. The Chinese Ideophone Database (CHIDEOD) provided the perfect place for this.
The make-up of the database is explained in this article:
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
Members involved
- PI Thomas Van Hoey
- Co-author Arthur Lewis Thompson
- Supervisor Chiarung Lu 呂佳容
Other outputs
Dissertation
You can read about CHIDEOD’s first use case in my dissertation
Van Hoey, Thomas. 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. Taipei: National Taiwan University. PhD dissertation.
Interactive app
I made an interactive app in the Shiny framework for easy consultation of the database.
This app also can export into multiple formats, e.g., .csv, .xlsx.
R package
If you want to use it directly in R, you can follow the instructions on the project’s GitHub page.
OSF page
The data can also also be found on this OSF repository.
Basic info
Funding was provided by the same funders as my PhD.
National Taiwan University, Graduate Institute for Linguistics GIL