Comprehension of Idioms in Turkish Aphasic Participants

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Burcu Aydin
Muzaffer Barin
Oktay Yagiz
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[1] Adnan Menderes University,Department of English Language Education, Faculty of Education
[2] Atatürk University,Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters
[3] Atatürk University,Department of English Language Education, Faculty of Education
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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research | 2017年 / 46卷
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Aphasia; Brain damage; Idiom comprehension; Turkish idioms; Graded Salience Hypothesis; Figurative language; Semantic processing;
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Brain damaged participants offer an opportunity to evaluate the cognitive and linguistic processes and make assumptions about how the brain works. Cognitive linguists have been investigating the underlying mechanisms of idiom comprehension to unravel the ongoing debate on hemispheric specialization in figurative language comprehension. The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare the comprehension of idiomatic expressions in left brain damaged (LBD) aphasic, right brain damaged (RBD) and healthy control participants. Idiom comprehension in eleven LBD aphasic participants, ten RBD participants and eleven healthy control participants were assessed with three tasks: String to Picture Matching Task, Literal Sentence Comprehension Task and Oral Idiom Definition Task. The results of the tasks showed that in overall idiom comprehension category, the left brain-damaged aphasic participants interpret idioms more literally compared to right brain-damaged participants. What is more, there is a significant difference in opaque idiom comprehension implying that left brain-damaged aphasic participants perform worse compared to right brain-damaged participants. On the other hand, there is no statistically significant difference in scores of transparent idiom comprehension between the left brain-damaged aphasic and right brain-damaged participants. This result also contribute to the idea that while figurative processing system is damaged in LBD aphasics, the literal comprehension mechanism is spared to some extent. The results of this study support the view that idiom comprehension sites are mainly left lateralized. Furthermore, the results of this study are in consistence with the Giora’s Graded Salience Hypothesis.
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页码:1485 / 1507
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