On the specificity of figurative language comprehension impairment in schizophrenia and its relation to cognitive skills but not psychopathological symptoms - Study on metaphor, humor and irony [PDF]
Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, 2023 People with schizophrenia have difficulty understanding figurative expressions, such as metaphors, humor or irony. The present study investigated the specificity of figurative language impairment in schizophrenia and its relation with cognitive and ...
Przemysław Adamczyk +4 more
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Rethinking Figurative Language in Autism: What Evidence Can We Use for Interventions?
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 Problems with the processing and understanding of figurative language have been systematically observed in individuals on the autism spectrum despite preserved structural language skills.
Mila Vulchanova, Valentin Vulchanov
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Figurative Language, Language Disorders, and Language(s) Evolution [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Preparation of this work was supported by funds from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grants FFI2014-61888-EXP and FFI2016-78034-C2-2-P) and FEDER.
Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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Reading Comprehension Challenges in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Linguistic Factors and Figurative Language Proficiency. [PDF]
Autism Dev Lang ImpairBackground and Aims Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) without intellectual disability often face challenges in understanding written text. However, considerable variability in this area underscores the need to examine their reading profiles ...
Kritsotakis G, Morfidi E.
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Processing figurative language: Evidence from native and non-native speakers of English. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 In recent research on figurative phrases, factors (e.g., familiarity, transparency, meaning, and decomposability) have played a significant influence on how native and non-native English speakers (various L1 and L1 Arabic) acquire, process, and ...
Alkhammash R.
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Journal of Languages and Language Teaching, 2023 Figurative language analysis in a novel involves examining the author's use of various literary devices and techniques to enhance the narrative, evoke emotions, and create a deeper understanding of the text.
Dwi Indarti +2 more
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ACM Computing SurveysFigurative language generation (FLG) is the task of reformulating a given text to include a desired figure of speech, such as a hyperbole, a simile, and several others, while still being faithful to the original context.
Malvina Nissim, Huiyuan Lai
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Figurative language comprehension in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analytic review [PDF]
Autism, 2018 Terje Nærland +2 more
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Figurative language processing in atypical populations: the ASD perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 Sobh Chahboun +2 more
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Multi-lingual and Multi-cultural Figurative Language Understanding [PDF]
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 Figurative language permeates human communication, but at the same time is relatively understudied in NLP. Datasets have been created in English to accelerate progress towards measuring and improving figurative language processing in language models (LMs)
Anubha Kabra +8 more
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