Table 4 Summary of stimulus characteristics by item type.
From: COGMED: a database for Chinese olfactory and gustatory metaphor
Dimension | Metaphorical | Literal | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adjective | Verb | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Noun | |||||||
M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
| Â | Olfaction (sample: 96) | |||||||||||
Item number | 145 | 27 | 15 | 100 | 25 | 7 | ||||||
Familiarity | 3.12 | 0.69 | 3.66 | 0.48 | 2.45 | 0.49 | 3.78 | 0.53 | 4.00 | 0.38 | 3.53 | 0.96 |
Meaningfulness | 3.92 | 0.55 | 4.32 | 0.24 | 3.30 | 0.47 | 4.44 | 0.29 | 4.51 | 0.19 | 3.96 | 0.69 |
Figurativeness | 2.83 | 0.59 | 2.80 | 0.50 | 3.28 | 0.81 | 1.46 | 0.27 | 1.45 | 0.25 | 1.71 | 0.44 |
Valence | 2.65 | 0.99 | 3.02 | 0.74 | 3.15 | 0.19 | 2.90 | 1.25 | 3.26 | 0.68 | 3.04 | 0.54 |
Difficulty | 3.99 | 0.43 | 4.26 | 0.20 | 3.34 | 0.31 | 4.49 | 0.22 | 4.50 | 0.19 | 3.97 | 0.50 |
Imageability | 3.71 | 0.49 | 4.07 | 0.26 | 3.26 | 0.35 | 4.30 | 0.34 | 4.43 | 0.19 | 3.73 | 0.52 |
Naturalness | 3.69 | 0.59 | 4.06 | 0.28 | 3.06 | 0.34 | 4.25 | 0.35 | 4.39 | 0.24 | 3.85 | 0.70 |
| Â | Gustation (sample:99) | |||||||||||
Item number | 178 | 17 | 34 | 92 | 13 | 18 | ||||||
Familiarity | 3.71 | 0.50 | 3.90 | 0.43 | 3.22 | 0.75 | 3.61 | 0.54 | 3.59 | 0.49 | 3.39 | 0.58 |
Meaningfulness | 4.29 | 0.30 | 4.44 | 0.20 | 3.78 | 0.62 | 4.37 | 0.30 | 4.38 | 0.23 | 3.99 | 0.49 |
Figurativeness | 2.62 | 0.63 | 2.47 | 0.32 | 2.58 | 0.67 | 1.58 | 0.40 | 1.45 | 0.87 | 1.84 | 0.40 |
Valence | 2.68 | 0.77 | 3.52 | 0.44 | 2.96 | 0.59 | 2.97 | 0.61 | 3.53 | 0.18 | 2.95 | 0.29 |
Difficulty | 4.28 | 0.26 | 4.41 | 0.16 | 3.81 | 0.53 | 4.41 | 0.22 | 4.41 | 0.20 | 4.03 | 0.40 |
Imageability | 4.07 | 0.30 | 4.24 | 0.20 | 3.64 | 0.50 | 4.20 | 0.33 | 4.24 | 0.29 | 3.78 | 0.41 |
Naturalness | 4.13 | 0.42 | 4.32 | 0.25 | 3.58 | 0.67 | 4.17 | 0.40 | 4.19 | 0.28 | 3.85 | 0.41 |
