Bilingual Processing Mechanisms of Scientific Metaphors and Conventional Metaphors: Evidence via a Contrastive Event-Related Potentials Study
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.894114
Abstract: To study the different mechanisms of understanding figurative language in a speaker’s native language (L1) and their second language (L2), this study investigated how scientific metaphors in Chinese (L1) and English (L2) are electrophysiologically processed… read more here.
Keywords: bilingual processing; language; scientific metaphors; event related ... See more keywords
Bilingual Processing of Comparative Structures in Spanish
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DOI: 10.3390/languages3030035
Abstract: Previous studies have focused on the access of content words to investigate the cognitive strategies used in bilingual processing (e.g., Fernandez 2003), but less is known about functional words. In this study, I assess (i)… read more here.
Keywords: bilingual processing; processing; three groups; processing comparative ... See more keywords