Intuitions of the Transparency of Idioms: Can One Keep a Secret by Spilling the Beans?
Intuitions of the Transparency of Idioms: Can One Keep a Secret by Spilling the Beans?
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Keysar, B. and Bly, B.
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New York: Elsevier Inc
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English
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New York: Elsevier Inc
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The meanings of many idioms are perceived as relatively transparent, that is, we see a connection between the expressions and their meanings. We propose that an important source of these intuitions is language users′ attempts to make sense of conventional expressions. In two experiments, subjects learned either the original meaning of an unfamiliar...
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Intuitions of the Transparency of Idioms: Can One Keep a Secret by Spilling the Beans?
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_85610200
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_85610200
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0749-596X
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1096-0821
DOI
10.1006/jmla.1995.1005
