Lind, Ties (2021) Idiom Decomposability: there is more to it than a single pan-herring. Bachelor's Thesis, Artificial Intelligence.
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Abstract
Idiom decomposability relates to how individual words of an idiom contribute to the overall figurative meaning. For example, the idiom to button your lips is considered decomposable, since the meaning can be worked out from the individual words. Idioms like to kick the bucket are nondecomposable. Various studies have tried to develop a metric for idiom decomposability, such as a rating, by asking native speakers to judge the decomposability of idioms. Yet recent literature has shown that being familiar with an idiom influences how one might decompose it. For this reason the decomposability ratings made by native speakers may be biased. A multiple choice questionnaire was designed to test Dutch idioms on English speakers, to see whether there is a relationship between the decomposability rating and identifying the correct meaning. As stated in a paper by Sprenger et al. (2019) if an idiom is highly decomposable, knowledge about its individual words may help a language learner to deduce the meaning. 57 monolingual native English speakers, and 37 multilingual native English speakers were tested on whether they could identify the correct meaning of 50 Dutch idioms in a multiple choice questionnaire. The results show that in general, the decomposability rating of the idiom affects the accuracy. This result suggests that there is a relationship between the decomposability ratings and how easy the meanings for the idioms are able to be identified.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor's Thesis) |
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| Supervisor name: | Rij-Tange, J.C. van and Mehlhorn, S.K. |
| Degree programme: | Artificial Intelligence |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2021 19:44 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2021 19:44 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/24025 |
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