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Kill the Song--Steal the Show: What Does Distinguish Predicative Metaphors from Decomposable Idioms?
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Direct linkCaillies, Stephanie; Declercq, Christelle – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2011
This study examined the semantic processing difference between decomposable idioms and novel predicative metaphors. It was hypothesized that idiom comprehension results from the retrieval of a figurative meaning stored in memory, that metaphor comprehension requires a sense creation process and that this process difference affects the processing…
Descriptors: Priming, Language Patterns, Sentences, Semantics
