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"Heaps of meanings": A multidimensional approach to metaphorical expressions
Mateus, Inês; Mendes Oliveira, Helena; Teixeira, José; Soares, Ana PaulaIn the public discourse, if a manager is described as being above their employees or a queen is referred to as “her royal highness”, we tend to understand both expressions as cues of powerful positions, disregarding the explicit verticality of their meaning. Similarly, if a friend or family member calls to confess to a lie and goes on to say they feel lighter, we do not genuinely assume they have lost weight si...
The role of syllables in intermediate-depth stress-timed languages: masked prim...
Campos, Ana Duarte; Mendes Oliveira, Helena; Soares, Ana PaulaThe role of syllables as a sublexical unit in visual word recognition and reading is well established in deep and shallow syllable-timed languages such as French and Spanish, respectively. However, its role in intermediate stress-timed languages remains unclear. This paper aims to overcome this gap by studying for the first time the role of syllables at early stages of visual word recognition in Portuguese (Eur...