This paper offers an experimental approach to the polysemy of the Estonian perception verb tundma ‘to feel’ from the perspective of the perception ➔ cognition metaphor. First, a sorting task is used to map how native speakers perceive the different senses of tundma ‘to feel’. The results show that cognition-related senses of tundma form the most distinct and coherent group. This set was researched further by means of a second experiment, a conceptual feature rating task. The aim of this task was to assess if the cognition-related meanings of tundma differ from other cognition verbs of Estonian (teadma ‘to know’, aru saama ‘to understand’) in that they are metaphorically linked to physical perception. It was predicted that native speakers use characteristics tied to the physical perception in the conceptualisation of the type of knowledge expressed by tundma. However, native speakers did not rate sentences with tundma as more physical than sentences with abstract cognition verbs. This result is indicative of the nature of the semantics of tundma being more varied than was first thought. It is argued that the semantics of tundma refer to it being a verb of general proximal perception.

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感受你的邻居：爱沙尼亚语中 tundma 多义词“感受”的实验方法

本文为爱沙尼亚语感知动词的多义性提供了一种实验方法通马从“感觉”的角度洞察力➔认识隐喻。首先，排序任务用于映射母语人士如何感知不同的感觉通马'感觉'。结果表明，与认知相关的感觉通马形成最独特和连贯的群体。通过第二个实验（概念特征评级任务）进一步研究了该集合。这项任务的目的是评估认知相关的意义是否通马不同于爱沙尼亚语的其他认知动词（蒂玛“知道”，阿鲁萨马“理解”），因为它们隐喻地与物理感知相关联。据预测，母语使用者在概念化所表达的知识类型时使用与物理感知相关的特征通马. 然而，以英语为母语的人并没有给句子评分通马比带有抽象认知动词的句子更具物理性。这个结果表明了语义的性质通马比最初想象的更加多样化。有人认为，语义通马将它称为一般近端知觉的动词。