{
  "record_type": "mapping_candidate",
  "record_id": "LB-en-light-001",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "status": "Candidate",
  "review_decision": "retain_without_promotion",
  "publication_axes": {
    "entry_status": "Published",
    "mapping_status": "Candidate",
    "mapping_level": "C — Cross-modal / Semantic Mapping",
    "historical_cognacy": "Not established",
    "literary_status": "Published",
    "experimental_status": "Planned / Not tested"
  },
  "english": {
    "lexeme": "light",
    "sense_id": "light_n_brightness",
    "part_of_speech": "noun",
    "meaning": ["light", "brightness", "illumination"],
    "pronunciation_broad_ipa": "/laɪt/",
    "homograph_exclusion": "The adjective light meaning 'not heavy' belongs to a different historical root and is outside this record."
  },
  "primary_chinese_mapping": {
    "traditional": "籟",
    "simplified": "籁",
    "pinyin": "lài",
    "pronunciation_broad_ipa": "/laɪ̯⁵¹/",
    "historical_core_meaning": "a three-holed bamboo wind instrument",
    "extended_meanings": ["sound from apertures", "natural sound", "music or sound, especially in 天籁 and 万籁"]
  },
  "mapping_cardinality": {
    "rule": "one_english_lexeme_sense_to_one_primary_chinese_mapping",
    "primary_mapping_count": 1,
    "compliant": true
  },
  "observed_relation": {
    "phonetic": "The modern forms share an approximate /laɪ/ sequence; English has final /t/, while Mandarin has a lexical falling tone and no final /t/.",
    "direct_lexical_semantics": "weak: light denotes illumination; 籁 historically denotes an instrument and then sound",
    "cross_modal_semantics": "candidate: LIGHT ↔ SOUND / MUSIC",
    "historical_cognacy": "unsupported; no historical common-origin or borrowing evidence has been identified"
  },
  "linked_records": {
    "etymology": "../evidence/etymology/light-lai.v0.1.json",
    "cross_modal_hypothesis": "../hypotheses/sound-light-cross-modal.v0.1.json",
    "cluster_hypothesis": "../hypotheses/l-light-semantic-cluster.v0.1.json",
    "planned_experiment": "../experiments/plans/light-lai-cross-modal.v0.1.json",
    "literary_source": "../sources/literary/ru-guang-tian-lai.v0.1.json",
    "page": "../../words/light.html"
  },
  "promotion_blockers": [
    "No preregistered behavioral evidence for a sound-symbolic or cross-modal association.",
    "The direct lexical meanings differ.",
    "The motivating European positive forms collapse to one PIE family at the deepest deduplication level."
  ],
  "author": "Jinkai Liu｜劉金凱",
  "public_entry": "../../words/light.html",
  "publication_note": "The Language Book entry and literary work are published. The light → 籁 mapping remains Candidate / retain_without_promotion.",
  "updated_at": "2026-08-30"
}