Fitting, Not Clashing! A Distributional Semantic Model of Logical Metonymy
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compute thematic fit for pairs relying only on distributional information (no information about semantic types) compare thematic fit differences across conditions and processing cost differences (high processing cost → low thematic fit, corresponding to 1-thematic fit in the model) verify if the computational model yields the same main effects and pairwise differences reported by the psycholinguistic studies
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