Metaphors are physical and abstract: ERPs to metaphorically modified nouns resemble ERPs to abstract language [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 Metaphorical expressions very often involve words referring to physical entities and experiences. Yet, figures of speech such as metaphors are not intended to be understood literally, word-by-word.
Bálint eForgács +5 more
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Relations Between L2 Proficiency and L1 Lexical Property Evaluations
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The present study investigates the relations between L2-English proficiency and L1-Turkish lexical property evaluations. We asked whether L2 proficiency affects lexical properties, including imageability and concreteness ratings of 600 Turkish words ...
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Concrete admixtures - sustainable concrete
Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings, 2022 Durability of concrete, an important part of the sustainability theme, was, is, and will be one of the main topics for large infrastructure projects like the Gotthard base tunnel. For such important structures a service life of more than 80 years is expected. The prevailing underground conditions like water ingress, aggressive waters etc.
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Statistical and methodological problems with concreteness and other semantic variables: A list memory experiment case study [PDF]
, 2017 The purpose of this article is to highlight problems with a range of semantic psycholinguistic variables (concreteness, imageability, individual modality norms, and emotional valence) and to provide a way of avoiding these problems.
Pollock, L
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A concreteness effect in morphosyntactic variation: Evidence from the variation in the choice of clausal complements in Serbian [PDF]
PsihologijaThis paper presents findings on the concreteness effect observed in the selection of clausal complements in Serbian. While concreteness effects have predominantly been explored in the realm of word processing, this study contributes to a limited body of ...
Arsenijević Boban +2 more
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The Concreteness of Concrete Art [PDF]
Parallax, 2015 In the artistic and cultural lexicon of the short twentieth century, the term ‘concrete’ recurs repeatedly.
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Worrying Leads to Reduced Concreteness of Problem Elaborations: Evidence for the Avoidance Theory of Worry [PDF]
, 2000 Both lay concept and scientific theory have embraced the view that nonpathological worry may be helpful for defining and analyzing problems. To evaluate the quality of problem elaborations, concreteness is a key variable.
Borkovec T.D. +12 more
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Worry, problem elaboration and suppression of imagery: the role of concreteness [PDF]
, 1998 Both lay concept and scientific theory claim that worry may be helpful for defining and analyzing problems. Recent studies, however, indicate that worrisome problem elaborations are less concrete than worry-free problem elaborations.
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Education Sciences, 2023 Some poor readers show little or no progress in literacy interventions as their susceptibility to the concreteness and neighborhood effect is not accounted for during intervention.
Amanda Swee-Ching Tan, Farhan Ali
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Strong lensing in the Einstein-Straus solution [PDF]
, 2008 We analyse strong lensing in the Einstein-Straus solution with positive cosmological constant. For concreteness we compare the theory to the light deflection of the lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables. To the memory of J\"
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