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FACTORS INFLUENCING JAPANESE UNIVERSITY LEARNERS’ INFERENCES OF UNFAMILIAR IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS IN LISTENING
… inferencing in reading. In addition, even though idiomatic expressions such as smell a rat, jump the gun, and go cold turkey are ubiquitous in the English language, especially in oral communication, and they are considered crucial in both first language (L1) and second language (L2) acquisition, …
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An analysis of the role of culture in the tradition of Northern Sotho idiomatic expressions into English
… socio-cultural framework of the Northern Sotho idiomatic expressions. It adopts Nord’s (1997/2000) Functionalist Approach of translation within Descriptive Translation Studies to engage in a critical analysis of a clearly defined collection of Northern Sotho idiomatic expressions. Despite the …
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Using Idiomatic Expressions as a Stimulus for Art Therapy with Adolescents With Asperger's and High-Functioning Autism
<p>The art therapy group outlined in this grant proposes the use of narrative art therapy interventions for adolescents with either Asperger's or High-Functioning Autism diagnosis. The goal of the group is for the participants to better understand their collective experience as individuals with …
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Structural analysis of the Lao ch'i-ta
… parts: structura l analysis of the Lao Ch'i-ta , idiomatic expressions, and cultural content. When I began my research it was my intention to concentrate only on the structural analysis of the text. Soon, however, I realized that the interesting idiomatic expressions used. as well as the rich and …
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Structural analysis of the Lao ch'i-ta
… parts: structura l analysis of the Lao Ch'i-ta , idiomatic expressions, and cultural content. When I began my research it was my intention to concentrate only on the structural analysis of the text. Soon, however, I realized that the interesting idiomatic expressions used. as well as the rich and …
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Le Web comme corpus et les expressions « figées » en français
… case, the study of lexical variation in French idiomatic expressions. The first part of this paper examines the idea of using the World Wide Web as an exploitable corpus for linguistic research and provides an overview of related theoretical and practical issues. The major advantages and …
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Idiomatic Comprehensions in Learning Disabled Adolescents
The ability to comprehend idiomatic expressions was compared between 9 eighth grade and 10 tenth grade learning disabled (LD) adolescents. Each subject was presented with a multiple choice picture task, a nonstandardized lexical explanational and a standardized explanational task. Results failed to …
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Shame in the Fabliaux
… stories involve simple characters, word play and idiomatic expressions. I argue that literary mechanisms are used in these texts in a conscious effort to augment the characters shame while explicitly implicating the audience in playing the shame game and shaming themselves if they do not …
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"Knowing a thing is ""a thing"": The use of acoustic features in multiword expression extraction"
… for speaking, often on the level of non-literal, idiomatic expressions like black sheep. Typically, datasets of these so-called multiword expressions come from hand-crafted ontologies or lexicons, because identifying expressions like these in an unsupervised manner is still an unsolved problem in …
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English grammar as a stratified system of signs
… and their meanings, syntactic constructions, idiomatic expressions, discourse phenomena, all types of linguistic information, are treated as meaningful and therefore capable of being represented as signs. A four-strata version of linguistic structure is adopted, with graphic, morphemic, …
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Use Your Head to Get the Picture: an Investigation of Working Memory and Idiom Processing
… working memory affects how participants process idiomatic expressions. In Experiment 1, participants read idiomatic, literal and nonsense sentences at an experimenter controlled rate then judged whether or not the sentence made sense. In Experiment 2, participants read idiomatic and literal …
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Idiomatic sentence generation and paraphrasing
Idiomatic expressions (IE) play an important role in natural language, and have long been a “pain in the neck” for NLP systems. Despite this, text generation tasks related to IEs remain largely under-explored. In this study, we propose two new tasks of idiomatic sentence generation and paraphrasing …
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The Use of nśʼ in the Pentateuch and its Contribution to the Concept of Forgiveness
… of metonymy or by concretizing the abstracts. Idiomatic expressions involving body parts were found to indicate purposeful utilization rather than just some measureable movement.</p> <p>In the context of nśʼ, sin and wrongdoing are viewed as concrete objects which the wrongdoer must carry. …
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The Shining Face of Moses: The Interpretation of Exodus 34:29-35 and Its Use in the Old and New Testaments
… this language in prayers and songs. In addition, idiomatic expressions about the "face" or the brightness of the face are found in some extrabiblical sources and ANE inscriptions, which confirm and validate the interpretation in chapter 3. Three further texts are examined with relation to the role …
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Exploring the development of 'verb gram' sequences and grammar patterns in L2 writing: A case study of L1 Korean speakers
… in higher proficiency levels. Furthermore, idiomatic expressions, phrasal verbs, and collocations were present across all levels, although they become more prevalent with higher proficiency levels. The comparison iii with other L1 speakers and L1 English speakers shows a similarity in the …
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Sounding sacred: The adoption of biblical archaisms in the Book of Mormon and other 19th century texts
… lexemes, morpho-syntactic features, and idiomatic expressions. The rates are compared to those in the King James Bible and to the Corpus of Historical American English, which serves as a control for 19th century usage.</p> <p>Archaic features are indeed used extensively in a number of the …
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Neuronale Kooperationsprozesse während der Verarbeitung figurativer Sprache : eine EEG-Kohärenzanalyse
… synchronization between the hemispheres for idiomatic compared to literal sentences and this strong difference only appears from the moment on the figurative meaning is retrieved. Ambiguous sentences compared to literal ones did not evoke any difference in processing. That leads to the …
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The Labyrinths of Venice: Environment and Identity in Anna Pavignano's Novel "Venezia, un sogno" and Other Works in Literature and Film
… a colloquial style, including the regular use of idiomatic expressions and dialect which made the translation more challenging, and secondly, on the book's potential for being reproduced as a film.</p>
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The use of focus markers in second language word processing
… level, a combination of an extended knowledge of idiomatic expressions, a broad lexical familiarity, a large vocabulary size, and the ability to deal with phonetic distinctions and fine phonetic detail has been argued necessary for effective nonnative comprehension of spoken language. The …