Sensory modality profiles of antonyms

Abstract Adjectives that are used to describe sensory experiences often express more than one modality. The adjective sweet , for instance, may primarily be associated with taste (i.e., is the dominant modality of sweet), but it can also smell, sound or sight, and possibly even touch. It has been shown some modalities combine easily others. Many adjectives taste, but, less likely, sound. These associations between as they expressed in language topic this study. We looked at distribution combinations pairs antonymic (e.g., sweet–sour ), how these differed from isolation. In our dataset, there was a sizeable number consisting differing modalities. Within those pairs, we observed sight touch vice versa. Similarly, smell Finally, both hearing not other way around. results contribute understanding experiences, and, that, shaped by words use them.