Processing Unfamiliar Metaphors in a Self-Paced Reading Task.
In 2 self-paced reading experiments, we investigate the processing characteristics of unfamiliar metaphorical subject-predicate structures. The literal first hypothesis predicts that processing metaphorical expressions of the type "an x is a y" will proceed more slowly than in the case of literal st...
| Published in: | Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 16; no. 1/2; pp. 87 - 109 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2001
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