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Metaphor Comprehension: What Makes a Metaphor Difficult to Understand?
2002
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Comprehension difficulty was rated for metaphors of the form Noun 1 -is-a-Noun 2 ; in addition, participants completed frames of the form Noun 1 -is-________ with their literal interpretation of the metaphor. Metaphor comprehension was simulated with a computational model based on Latent Semantic Analysis. The model matched participants' interpretations for both easy and difficult metaphors. When interpreting easy metaphors, both the participants and the model generated highly consistent
doi:10.1207/s15327868ms1704_1
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