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Publication details [#46268]

Almor, Amit, Sudha Arunachalam and Brent Strickland. 2007. When the Creampuff Beat the Boxer: Working Memory, Cost, and Function in Reading Metaphoric Reference. Metaphor and Symbol 22 (2) : 169–193.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

anaphora | metaphor | reading | reference

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study suggests that working memory performance affects the processing of metaphoric anaphors, and that the balance between processing cost and discourse function fluctuates according to working memory capacity.