(1) Our hypothesis is that they can reach an idiomatic competence if idioms are presented within a rich informational environment allowing children to grasp their figurative sense.
(2) We conducted three experiments to investigate the mental images associated with idiomatic phrases in English.
(3) These results are interpreted as supporting the hypothesis that when an idiomatic phrase is interpreted figuratively full literal semantic processing of that phrase is not necessarily carried out.
(4) These results suggest that adults with unilateral brain damage can activate and retrieve familiar idiomatic forms, and that their idiom-interpretation deficits most likely reflect impairment at some later stage of information processing.
(5) Results suggest that the preceding referent was activated by the anaphor in the literal phrase, but not by the potential anaphor in the idiomatic phrase.
(6) All subjects learned to request clarification of the first three inadequate instructions; however, none of the children learned to request clarification of idiomatic phrases.
(7) Each subject was read 10 sentences which could be interpreted literally or idiomatically.
(8) This study examined the effectiveness of a training program designed to teach children with mild mental retardation the meaning of 12 idiomatic phrases, such as "to hit the sack."
(9) On the idiomatic contexts, the normal children comprehended significantly more idioms than the children with mental retardation, and the mentally retarded children performed significantly better than the younger normal children.
(10) It represents the most parsimonious, meaningful and idiomatic set of Italian pain descriptors, providing quantitative information that can be treated statistically, yet preserving a close structural parallel with the MPQ.
(11) Instructions were inadequate because of an interfering signal, an unfamiliar word, excessive length, or an unfamiliar idiomatic phase.
(12) Twenty hearing-impaired children enrolled in a state residential school for deaf students in a large south central U.S. city participated in a study that compared the efficacy of two instructional designs used to teach idiomatic expressions.
(13) Results show that informative contexts can improve children's ability to perceive idiomatic meanings even at the age of seven; and that children are less able to produce idioms than to comprehend them.
(14) But that day, she was still seeking to make herself heard, in fluent, idiomatic, if heavily accented, English.
(15) Reduced use of idiomatic language occurred, in both the oral and signed portions of communication, only when Total Communication was used.
(16) Gabrielsson, who is an architect with wonderful idiomatic English and a good line in irony, does not like people to know where she lives.
(17) "First we have to understand exactly what they are talking about," Chéreau says in his capable, though not quite idiomatic, English.
(18) "Power," P, the usual mode of representation of magnification, is defined as the ratio of the distance between two points on the photoimage to that between the same two points on the original specimen, but is idiomatically denoted as xP rather than the mathematically correct xP2 in common usage.
(19) A short story was presented, after which the subjects were required to identify events in the story, which were described using idiomatic phrases.
(20) These findings demonstrate that young children better understand idiomatic phrases whose individual parts independently contribute to their overall figurative meanings.
Idiosyncratic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Idiosyncratical
Example Sentences:
(1) However, reliable discrimination between immunological and idiosyncratic pharmacological mechanism is difficult to obtain.
(2) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
(3) There are two distinct types of toxicity with differing pathogenic mechanisms--a dose-related reversible marrow aplasia and a dose-independent idiosyncratic aplasia with a high mortality.
(4) The author suggests that if the concept is to be retained, psychiatrists utilize where possible the term "alcohol idiosyncratic reaction" in accord with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) III guidelines, particularly in view of the medicolegal implications discussed in Part II, which follows as a separate paper.
(5) The seemingly idiosyncratic genesis of fatty tissue is discussed with reference to one of the patients in this series.
(6) His idiosyncratic taxonomy – Glasman has called David Cameron a socialist in charge of a liberal-led government – means he can confuse as often as he clarifies.
(7) In general, the rest of the sector have found Kids Company to be pretty idiosyncratic,” they said.
(8) Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is an adverse reaction of an idiosyncratic nature to drugs having antidopaminergic activity.
(9) Monotherapy can improve seizure control as well as reduce the risk of serious idiosyncratic reactions, dose-related side effects, and complex drug interactions.
(10) Persistent ataxia may represent a previously unrecognized idiosyncratic reaction to griseofulvin in cats.
(11) NMS is a rare and idiosyncratic reaction that occurs with the use of dopamine antagonists or the withdrawal of dopamine agonists from patients with IP.
(12) Thus, if immune mechanisms are involved in the pathogenesis of halothane hepatitis, other factors, probably related to idiosyncratic host immune responses, must be implicated.
(13) Because halothane causes an idiosyncratic, and sometimes fatal, hepatitis that is associated with an immune response against several trifluoroacetylated liver proteins, the present findings raise the possibility that humans exposed to HCFC-123 or structurally related HCFCs may be at risk of developing an immunologically mediated hepatitis.
(14) Beyond that, MSNBC devotes three hours each morning to a show hosted by a former rightwing GOP congressman and his cavalcade of vapid "centrist" establishment journalists such as Mark Halperin (then again, Fox features the idiosyncratic and unpredictable Shepard Smith each night).
(15) Ketoconazole is indicated in emergency situations, but chronic use is prevented by serious idiosyncratic toxicity and by long term complications.
(16) Many of the formulation-related changes in theophylline concentrations appeared to be idiosyncratic and could not be predicted by the overall bioavailability differences between the drugs.
(17) The most important toxic effect of chloramphenicol is bone marrow suppression, which can be dose related or idiosyncratic.
(18) The low power of the regression model in explaining variation in the decision to take bitewings indicates an idiosyncratic use of bitewing radiographs for caries diagnosis.
(19) Open daily noon-1am The Hudson Bar Facebook Twitter Pinterest Idiosyncratically decked out in antique bric-a-brac, this busy, multistorey cafe-bar and music venue has one of Belfast’s most comprehensive craft beer ranges.
(20) In these patterns can be identified: (a) conspicuous behaviors, idiosyncratic for the individual, which often yield to psychoanalytic inquiry to reveal their dynamic-historical antecedents; and (b) inconspicuous background kinesics, habitual to the individual, which ordinarily are opaque to analytic exploration, yet hold rich meaning.