Kathleen Ahrens

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Journal Articles

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2011. A Worldwide Network for Children's Writers and Illustrators. New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 8(13): 312-320. [DOWNLOAD]

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2011. Book Review of Context and Connection in Metaphor: How Simple Ideas Shape Human Experience, by David Ritchie (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave MAcmillan). Metaphor and Symbol, 26(3): 240-242.

Lin, Chien-Jer Charles and Kathleen Ahrens. 2010. Ambiguity Advantage Revisited: Two Meanings are Better than One When Accessing Chinese Nouns. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 39(1): 1-19.   [DOWNLOAD]

Gong, Shu-Ping, Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang. 2008. Chinese Word Sketch and Mapping Principles: A Corpus-Based Study of Conceptual Metaphors Using the BUILDING Source Domain. International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. 21(2): 3-17.  [DOWNLOAD]

Hong, Jia-fei, Chu-Ren Huang, and Kathleen Ahrens. 2008. Event Selection and Coercion of Two Verbs of Ingestion: A MARVS perspective. International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. 21(2): 31-42.  [DOWNLOAD]


Chung, Siaw-Fong & Kathleen Ahrens. 2008. MARVS Revisited: Incorporating Sense Distribution and Mutual Information Into Near-Synonym Analyses. Language and Linguistics. 9(2), 415-434. 
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Lu, Louis & Kathleen Ahrens. 2008. Ideological Influences on BUILDING metaphors in Taiwanese Presidential Speeches. Discourse and Society, 19(3), 383-408. [DOWNLOAD]

Gong, Shu-Ping & Kathleen Ahrens. 2007. Processing Conceptual Metaphors in On-Going Discourse. Metaphor & Symbol, 22(4), 313-330. [DOWNLOAD]

Ahrens, Kathleen, Ho-Ling Liu, Chia-Ying Lee, Shu-Ping Gong, Shin-Yi Fang and Yuan-Yu Hsu. 2007. Functional MRI of Conventional and Anomalous Metaphors in Mandarin Chinese. Brain and Language, 100(2), 163-171. [DOWNLOAD]

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2006. Using a Small Corpus to Test Linguistic Hypotheses: Evaluating 'People' in the State of the Union Addresses. International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, 11(4), 377-392. [DOWNLOAD]

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2006. The Effect of Visual Target Presentation Times on Lexical Ambiguity Resolution. Language and Linguistics, 7(3), 677-696. [DOWNLOAD]

Chung, Siaw-Fong, Kathleen Ahrens, Chu-Ren Huang. 2005. Source Domains as Concept Domains in Metaphorical Expressions. International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, 10(4), 553-570. [DOWNLOAD]

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2003. Verbal Integration: The Interaction of Participant Roles and Sentential Argument Structure. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 32(5), 497-516. [DOWNLOAD]

Ahrens, Kathleen, Chu-Ren Huang, and Shirley Chuang. 2003. Sense and Meaning Facets in Verbal Semantics: A MARVS Perspective. Language and Linguistics, 4(3), 468-484. [DOWNLOAD]

Huang, Chu-Ren & Kathleen Ahrens.  2003.  Individuals, Kinds and Events: Classifier Coercion of Noun. Language Sciences, 25(4), 353 - 373. [DOWNLOAD]

Ahrens, Kathleen & Chu-Ren Huang. 2002. Time Passing is Motion. Language & Linguistics, 3(3), 491-519. [DOWNLOAD]

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2001. On-line Sentence Comprehension of Ambiguous Verbs in Mandarin. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 10, 337-358. [DOWNLOAD]

Chu-Ren Huang, Kathleen Ahrens, Li-Li Chang, Keh-Jiann Chen, Mei-Chun Liu, Mei-Chih Tsai. 2000. The Module-Attribute Representation of Verbal Semantics: From Semantic to Argument Structure. In Yung-O Biq. (Ed.) Special Issue on Chinese Verbal Semantics. Computational Linguistics & Chinese Language Processing, 5(1), 19-46. [DOWNLOAD]

Huang, Chu-Ren and Kathleen Ahrens. 1999. The Function and Category of gei in Mandarin Ditransitive Constructions. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 27(2), 1-26. [DOWNLOAD]

Ahrens, Kathleen, Li-Li Chang, Kei-Jiann Chen, Chu-Ren Huang. 1998. Meaning Representation and Meaning Instantiation for Chinese Nominals. Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, 3(1), 45-60. [DOWNLOAD]

Huang, Chu-Ren, Kathleen Ahrens, & Keh-jiann Chen. 1998. A Data-driven Approach to the Mental Lexicon: Two Studies on Chinese Corpus Linguistics. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, 69(1), 151-180. [DOWNLOAD]

Huang, Chu-Ren, Zhao-ming Gao, Kathleen Ahrens, & Wen-Jen Wei. 1998. Argument Structure and Empty-Expletives: A Study of Event-Evaluative Predicates in Chinese. Benjamin K. T'sou ed. Studia Linguistica Serica, 401-414. 

Tsai, Mei-Chih, Chu-Ren Huang, Keh-Jiann Chen, Kathleen Ahrens. 1998.  Towards a Representation of Verbal Semantics – An Approach Based on Near Synonyms. Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, 3(1), 61-74. [DOWNLOAD]

Ahrens, Kathleen and David Swinney. 1995. Participant Roles and the Processing of Verbs during Sentence Comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 24(6), 533-547. [DOWNLOAD]

Ahrens, Kathleen. 1994. Classifier Production in Normals and Aphasics. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 22(2), 203-248. [DOWNLOAD]

Lin, Ying-chin and Kathleen Ahrens. 1992. Research on a Tangut Translation of "The Forest of Classes" (In Chinese).  The Continent Magazine, 84(5), 1-8. [DOWNLOAD]

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