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Metonymy as a Universal Cognitive Phenomenon: Evidence from Multilingual Lexicons

2022-05-10

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<p>Metonymy is regarded as a universally shared cognitive phenomenon; as such, humans are taken to effortlessly produce and comprehend metonymic senses. However, experimental studies on metonymy have been focused on Western societies, and the linguistic data backing up claims of universality has not been large enough to provide conclusive evidence. We introduce a large-scale analysis of metonymy based on a lexical...

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fe5f6680-a638-5c52-a02e-b0dcb7ff8436
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10.31234/osf.io/f6yjt
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