Suggestions for Future Research

The present study aims to investigate the interaction between adjectival compounds and gender. The two factors—gender and age—are our main concerns.

However, many other factors, such as educational backgrounds, social status, and regions, are not considered in this study. If these factors could be further examined and discussed, the results of the study could be more complete.

Also, if the data retrieved from corpora could be automatic and more systematic, more data could be obtained and the results would be more powerful. Statistic methods could also be applied to check the distribution of the data successfully. A possible direction for future research is to develop an automatic gender tag system with the aid of computational linguistics. With the system, the associative degrees of different terms and gender could be more extensively and effectively investigated.

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