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Slabakova, Roumyana; Cabrelli Amaro, Jennifer; Kyun Kang, Sang – Applied Linguistics, 2016
This article presents results of two off-line comprehension tasks investigating the acceptability of unconventional and conventional metonymy by native speakers of Korean and Spanish who speak English as a second language. We are interested in discovering whether learners differentiate between conventional and unconventional metonymy, and whether…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
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Moldovan, Cornelia D.; Sanchez-Casas, Rosa; Demestre, Josep; Ferre, Pilar – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2012
Previous evidence has shown that word pairs that are either related in form (e.g., "ruc-berro"; donkey-watercress) or very closely semantically related (e.g., "ruc-caballo", donkey-horse) produce interference effects in a translation recognition task (Ferre et al., 2006; Guasch et al., 2008). However, these effects are not…
Descriptors: Evidence, Language Dominance, Semantics, Translation