Using eye-tracking, we investigate on-line processing of idioms in a biasing story context by native and non-native speakers of English. The stimuli are idioms used figuratively (at the end of the day – ‘eventually’), literally (at the end of the day – ‘in the evening’), and novel phrases (at the end of the war). Native speaker results indicate a processing advantage for idioms over novel phras...

In this study, references to mothers in certain positive and negative circumstances some Sephardic, Turkish, Italian proverbs idioms that depict the concept of mother will be analyzed. Fear unhappiness as emotions, joy love emotions cultures observed within framework Cognitive Metaphor Theory Lakoff Johnson. Thus, study reveal is person who reconciles members a family, alienates all fears, love...

For this study, we analyze the dynamic instruction streams of the SPEC2000 integer benchmarks to find frequently occurring units of computation, or idioms. An idiom, in the broadest sense, is an interdependent piece of a computation dataflow. For example, a load-add-store idiom performs an increment operation through a set of three interdependent instructions. Using a heuristic technique that p...

Retargetable executable-code decompilation is a one of the most complicated reverse-engineering tasks. Among others, it involves de-optimization of compiler-optimized code. One type of such an optimization is usage of so-called instruction idioms. These idioms are used to produce faster or even smaller executable files. On the other hand, decompilation of instruction idioms without any advanced...

The purpose of this study was to learn how transparency and ambiguity affect idiom learning. To start, 157 French idioms were translated to English and normed for familiarity, transparency, and ambiguity. Experiment 1 was a training study in which 32 of these idioms were taught to 25 native English speakers over two days of training. A cued recall test during a third session showed a reliable e...

Metaphors in idioms are universal in languages. The progression from conceptual meaning to metaphorical meaning is a cognitive activity of mapping from one thing to another. This paper, based on the analysis of 2,347 metaphorical idioms, their linguistic features, grammatical structures, grammatical functions, and semantic categories, tries to identify categories of metaphorical idioms. Most of...

The aim of this study is to identify idiomatic expressions in English using the measure perplexity. assumption that cause higher perplexity than literal given a reference text. Perplexity our calculated based on n-grams (i) PoS tags, (ii) tokens, and (iii) thematic roles within boundaries sentence. In setting study, we observed no contexts (i), manages distinguish from literals. We postulate la...

The translation is a process of transferring meaning from the source language to target language. itself requires appropriate techniques in order produce an acceptable Likewise, idiom or chengyu has its own techniques. This study aims analyze technique Chinese web novel “Di Yi Qi Shao” which been translated Indonesian version called “Menantu Palsu” using theory introduced by Nida and Taber are ...