"Ditropically" ambiguous sentences (each having both a literal and an idiomatic interpretation) were prepared tbr listener's discrimination judgments, and fbr silent readers' rankings on an "idiomaticity'" scale. Listeners were unable to discriminate the literal from the idiomatic versions when presented with randomized single sentences excised from paragraph contexts. There was a bias toward i...

Idiomatic expressions are with a figurative meaning different from their literal meaning, and therefore, they cannot be understood literally. This study aims to scrutinize some aspects of the translation idiomatic in mystery movie entitled ‘Murder on Orient Express’. Seventy-seven were found movie. The idioms can categorized as follows: keywords uses (16) nouns adjectives (2), pairs (1), prepos...

When an idiomatic expression is encountered during natural language processing, the ambiguity between its idiomatic ~md non-idiomatic meaning has to be resolved. Rather than including both meanings in further processing, a conventionality-principle could be applied. This results in best-first processing of the idiomatic analysis. Two models are discussed fot the lexical representation of idioms...

Understanding language involves recognition and access to not only individual words, but also to a vast array of fixed expressions idioms, collocations, proverbs, common quotations, names, titles, slogans, song lyrics, etc. The purpose of the present paper is to examine the question of how fixed expressions particularly those with non-literal interpretations are understood during on-line senten...

The Arabic dialects have a specific linguistic repertoire, cultural singularity and social privacy. dialect is only understood by the people who daily use it. This study aims at shedding light on proverbs dialectical expressions used Bani Hasan tribe (بني حسن) in Jordan. primary were to investigate Illocutionary force of targeted based speech acts theoretical framework. data collected from vari...

This paper presents a probabilistic model for sense disambiguation which chooses the best sense based on the conditional probability of sense paraphrases given a context. We use a topic model to decompose this conditional probability into two conditional probabilities with latent variables. We propose three different instantiations of the model for solving sense disambiguation problems with dif...