Productivity and semantic transparency
An exploration of word formation in Mandarin Chinese
t-SNE map for words with the suffixes -子 (zi3, ‘diminutive marker’), -者 (zhe3, ‘man’), -化 (hua4,’-ise’), 头 (tou2, ‘noun marker’), -家 (men2, ‘plural marker’), 儿 (jia1, ‘certain kind of people’), and 儿 (er2, ‘diminutive marker’)
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