translation of idioms seems to be complicated for most translators since the meaning of idioms is difficult and sometimes impossible to be deduced from the meaning of their individual components. considering the difficulties of translation of idioms and also the specific constraints of subtitling such as space and time limits, this research studied the strategies employed in translation of idio...

An account is given of flexible idiom processing within a lexicon based parser. The view is a compositional one. The parser's behaviour is basically the "literal" one, unless a certain threshold is crossed by the weight of a particular idiom. A new process will then be added. The parser, besides yielding all idiomatic and literal interpretations embodies some claims of human processing simulati...

Electricity consumption of a building can be broken down into three different categories based on their end use. These categories are plug load, lighting load and mechanical load. This break down of electricity consumption is enabled by a Building Management System (BMS) which is powered by a collection of sensors in the building and a software. However, in the building management industry it i...

This paper examines a previously unstudied musical corpus derived from the polyphonic singing tradition of Epirus employing statistical methods. This analysis will mainly focus on unique harmonic aspects of these songs, which feature, for instance, unresolved dissonances (major second and minor seventh intervals) at structurally stable positions of the pieces (e.g. cadences). Traditional triadi...

Two experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that motor simulation contributes to the processing of idioms. A semantic interference paradigm was applied. Critically, imageability of idioms was manipulated. Results of the experiments suggested that processing of highly imageable idioms involved motor simulation in both meaning and familiarity verification tasks. However, low-imageable i...

In this paper, methods for identification and delimitation of idiomatic expressions in large Web corpora are presented. The proposed methods are based on the observation that idiomatic expressions are sometimes accompanied by metalinguistic expressions, e.g. the word “proverbial”, the expression “as they say” or quotation marks. Even though the frequency of such idiom-related metalinguistic mar...

This study examines the effect of familiarity, context, and linguistic convention on idiom comprehension in Mandarin speaking children. Two experiments (a comprehension task followed by a comprehension task coupled with a metapragmatic task) were administered to test participants in three age groups (6 and 9-year-olds, and an adult control group). Laval (Journal of Pragmatics 35(2):723-739, 200...