{"pk":30158,"title":"The Processing of German Verb-Object Metaphors","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Competing accounts of metaphor processing makedifferentiating predictions regarding the role of a metaphor’selements: While some claim that the elements are role-neutral,others believe them to play different roles from the get-go. Wetested these predictions with an investigation of German verb-object metaphors such as Sebastian füttert eine Prinzessin(‘Sebastian feeds a princess’). Results are in line with accountsthat posit different roles for a metaphor’s elements.Additionally, we investigated the distinctive influence ofcontext and a verb’s selectional preferences when anticipatinga post-verbal object. The findings show that participantsanticipate an upcoming object less when these two factors clash(i.e., when context and a verb’s selectional preferences pointtowards different objects), compared to when they are aligned(i.e. when they point towards anticipating the same object).","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"metaphor processing; eye-tracking; visual worldparadigm; experimental pragmatics; situated sentencecomprehension"}],"section":"Papers accepted as Posters, appearing in proceedings only","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9vs884fw","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Camilo","middle_name":"Rodríguez","last_name":"Ronderos","name_suffix":"","institution":"Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin","department":""},{"first_name":"Ernesto","middle_name":"","last_name":"Guerra","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universidad de Chile","department":""},{"first_name":"Pia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Knoeferle","name_suffix":"","institution":"Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30158/galley/20012/download/"}]}