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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"metaphor processing"”.
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The role of comprehension in metaphor processing
Psycholinguistic theories of metaphor comprehension are generally described in terms of one of three different sets of principles: feature matching theories which view metaphor as based on resolution of anomaly; comparison theories which view metaphor as based on computation of analogy; and …
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Embodied-linguistic conceptual representations during metaphor processing
Although metaphor processing has fascinated linguists and psychologists alike, the conceptual representations involved have not been fully examined. In the present thesis, I propose metaphor processing should be viewed as an aspect of language processing, involving conceptual representations that …
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Prevalence of Autistic-Like Traits in General Population Bilingual and Monolingual Samples and Their Effect on Cognition and Metaphor Processing/Interpretation
… effect of ALTs on cognition (study 2), and on metaphor processing and interpretation (study 3) in both bilinguals and monolinguals. The first study explored the distribution of ALTs in a general population sample of bilingual (n = 164) and monolingual (n = 230) children (age range: 5-12 years) …
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Contributions to the Computational Treatment of Non-literal Language
… Multiword Expressions (MWEs), and metaphor. We start by developing models to identify ironic comments in the context of the social micro-blogging website Twitter. In these experiments, we proposed a new way to extract features based on a study of their spatial structure. The …