processing skills and children's idiom comprehension 2 Abstract Two experiments compared 7-to 8-and 9-to 10-year-olds' ability to use semantic analysis and inference from context to understand idioms. We used a multiple-choice task and manipulated whether the idioms were transparent or opaque, familiar or novel, and presented with or without a supportive story context. Performance was compared ...

Single words and sentences referring to bodily actions activate the motor cortex. However, this semantic grounding of concrete language does not address the critical question whether the sensory-motor system contributes to the processing of abstract meaning and thought. We examined functional magnetic resonance imaging activation to idioms and literal sentences including arm- and leg-related ac...

ion. That’s why people are focusing their attention on the cognitive side of the story. The rise and fall of Generative Semantics also indicates scholars’ endeavor to seek a universal process for interpreting meaning. People with different languages might perceive reality in different ways. However, they have much more in common in the due process. Chomsky’s linguistic views are actually consid...

Despite the impressive amount of evidence showing involvement of the sensorimotor systems in language processing, important questions remain unsolved among which the relationship between non-literal uses of language and sensorimotor activation. The literature did not yet provide a univocal answer on whether the comprehension of non-literal, abstract motion sentences engages the same neural netw...

Second language learning starts with and using its words. When learners know how to use the basic or common words of target language, they can communicate better thus master receptive productive skills language. In light this interpretation, English instructors started literary works expand learners’ vocabulary achieve outcomes. regard, short stories for acquisition instruction is an effective ...

Literal meaning of artefact given by “Oxford Advanced Learner Dictionary” is a “thing made by the people”. In medical science the “fact” is not true; but we observe routinely is called artefact. These defects are referred to as artifacts . They lead to misinterpretations of histopathological diagnosis. This paper attempts to put all various types of artifacts that are observed in histopathology.

Figurative language poses a serious challenge to NLP systems. The use of idiomatic and metaphoric expressions is not only extremely widespread in natural language; many figurative expressions, in particular idioms, also behave idiosyncratically. These idiosyncrasies are not restricted to a non-compositional meaning but often also extend to syntactic properties, selectional preferences etc. To d...

Several authors have proposed increasingly efficient methods for computing the least general generalization of two clauses under theta-subsumption. The most expensive step in this computation is the reduction of the clause to its minimal size. In general, this requires testing all literals for redundancy, which in the worst case requires a thetasubsumption test for each of them. In this paper, ...

Previous research has shown that people can implicitly acquire mappings between word forms and literal meanings (Williams, 2004, 2005). We argue, from the metaphor-representation and embodiment perspectives, that people can unconsciously establish mappings between word forms and not only literal but also metaphorical meanings. Using Williams' (2005) paradigm, we found that transfer of form-mean...