This study argues that idiomatic expressions are essentially used as pragmatic messages which heavily laden with implicatures and/or contextual effects. implies not pure propositional elements necessarily have (non-compositional) semantic content, whereas any affiliated context. In this study, we defend an alternative view idioms composed of fixed plus a variant speaker-related meaning. order t...

Non-compositional multiword expressions (MWEs) still pose serious issues for a variety of natural language processing tasks and their ubiquity makes it impossible to get around methods which automatically identify these kind of MWEs. The method presented in this paper was inspired by Sporleder and Li (2009) and is able to discriminate between the literal and non-literal use of an MWE in an unsu...

The purpose of this paper is to make a proverb analyses between the various phraseological expressions that originate from different regions in Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, and Montenegro. aim research morphonological pragmatical analysis Albanian proverbs due empirical theoretical methodology. What motivated us write fact relatively high number are used expressions, so they important respective...

Dealing with idioms in Natural Language Processing systems is difficult, among other reasons, because their architecture must be conceived in such a way that it should not preclude the processing of both free word combinations and these, more constraint, expressions. On the other hand, many idioms do have syntactic structure, and can undergo several types of formal variation, thus making them h...

This article explores the influence of idiomatic syntactic constructions (i.e., constructions whose phrase structure rules violate the rules that underlie the construction of other kinds of sentences in the language) on the acquisition of phrase structure. In Experiment 1, participants were trained on an artificial language generated from hierarchical phrase structure rules. Some participants w...

Personnel in the McKay Institute and the English Language Center (ELC) at Brigham Young University have developed interactive videodisc workstations for use with non-native English-speaking students enrolled in the ELC program. These workstations, using the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark" as an authentic language experience with student-controlled instructional processes, are evaluated accordin...

In their recent article on embodied cognition, Wilson and Golonka (2013) also discuss research on conceptual metaphors like “power is up” or “the future is forward” to exemplify common approaches to embodied cognition. Metaphors are particularly interesting for embodied cognition research because they can map concrete, bodily experiences onto abstract concepts (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980). To be ...