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Prior, Anat; Wintner, Shuly; MacWhinney, Brian; Lavie, Alon – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
We compare translations of single words, made by bilingual speakers in a laboratory setting, with contextualized translation choices of the same items, made by professional translators and extracted from parallel language corpora. The translation choices in both cases show moderate convergence, demonstrating that decontextualized translation…
Descriptors: Semantics, Translation, Figurative Language, Language Processing
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Roch, Maja; Levorato, Maria Chiara – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
In the current study, idiom understanding was analyzed in relation to the ability to process the linguistic context in which the idiom is embedded with the hypothesis that there is a strong relationship between text and idiom comprehension. This hypothesis was derived from the global elaboration model. Nonfamiliar idioms, both transparent and…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Processing, Sentences, Semantics