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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Traditional psychological research relies heavily on controlled laboratory experiments.
  • The increasing availability of large-scale digital data offers new avenues for psychological inquiry.
  • Integrating big data with traditional methods can extend the reach of psychological research into real-world contexts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate the utility of linguistic big data for testing theories of cognition and representation.
  • To investigate semantic change in verbs versus nouns using diachronic corpora.
  • To empirically support the existence and relevance of phonesthemes.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of diachronic linguistic corpora to track semantic change over time.
  • Utilizing corpus statistics to identify sound-meaning correspondences (phonesthemes).
  • Correlating corpus-based findings with results from laboratory experiments.

Main Results:

  • Verbs and relational words exhibited greater semantic change influenced by textual context compared to concrete nouns, supporting Gentner's natural partition hypothesis.
  • Corpus statistics provided empirical evidence for the existence of phonesthemes.
  • The identified phonesthemes showed a correspondence with performance in a lab experiment.

Conclusions:

  • Large-scale linguistic data (corpora) are invaluable for exploring questions in cognitive science that are difficult to address in a lab setting.
  • The findings support theories on semantic change and the role of sound symbolism in language.
  • This approach broadens the scope of psychological research by integrating big data analysis with traditional experimental methods.