Data for: Of False Friends and Familiar Foes: Comparing native and non-native understanding of figurative phrases

Name: Data for: Of False Friends and Familiar Foes: Comparing native and non-native understanding of figurative phrases
Creator: Gareth Carrol
Published: 2017-11-20T21:13:44.558Z
Keywords: Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics

Carrol, Gareth; Littlemore, Jeannette; Dowens, Margaret

doi:10.17632/x5m39wbkr5.1

Data for: Of False Friends and Familiar Foes: Comparing native and non-native understanding of figurative phrases

Published: 20 November 2017| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/x5m39wbkr5.1

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Gareth Carrol, Jeannette Littlemore, Margaret Dowens

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Rating data for English native speakers, general non-natives (various L1s) and Chinese L1 speakers, rating figurative phrases (in English) for familiarity, transparency, meaning and decomposability. Phrases are English idioms, novel metaphors, unfamiliar idioms (translated from German and Bulgarian) and idioms translated from Chinese. Non-native speakers include demographic data about their language learning background, English usage and vocabulary proficiency.

Data for: Of False Friends and Familiar Foes: Comparing native and non-native understanding of figurative phrases

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