this paper focused on the way names of body parts are artistically used to convey meanings and messages in kifipa, a bantu language spoken in tanzania. since the body parts metaphors are used by people to portray meanings in their daily conversations (kovecses, 2004; vierke, 2012), the paper investigated such linguistic richness in the language. methodologically, the study identified names of b...

This paper reports a computational analysis of the semantic structure of the first 103 verbs typically learned by young speakers of English, relative to their relation to body parts. The results suggest that early verbs are strongly related to body parts, and tend to be organized to just four main body regions: mouth, eyes, legs, hands. The results also suggest that similarities among verbs in ...

In four experiments, we examined whether faces and body parts are processed faster and engage attention more than other objects. Participants searched for a green among blue frames and were asked to make speeded categorical decisions on an object presented within the target frame (e.g., was it food?). On half of the trials a colour singleton (a red frame) was also present and reaction times to ...