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  <Title>Metaphor Comprehension - A special mode of language processing?</Title>
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4. CONCLUSIONS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The final part of the paper examines the relationship between metaphor comprehension and existing language comprehension systems.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The processes which constitute the model of metaphor comprehension are common to many language understanding systems (Schank, Wilks, L)IR group, etc.). The comprehension of metaphor does not require a special set of processes to be developed, although the comprehension strategies may be specific to the comprehension task. Rather, a metaphor input forces the comprehension system to invoke a complex control structure to cope with the larger and richer knowledge domains which have to be handled. The main conclusion of the paper is that the notions of processing capacity, memory constraints and control structure are the most salient constructs in sLmulation metaphor comprehension.</Paragraph>
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