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...

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Published in:Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 16; no. 1/2; pp. 87 - 109
Main Authors: Brisard, Frank, Frisson, Steven, Sandra, Dominiek
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2001
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