Computational evidence for two-stage categorization as a process of adjective metaphor comprehension

Most of existing metaphor studies address comprehension of nominal metaphors like “My job is a jail ” and predicative me-taphors like “He shot down all of my arguments”. However, little attention has been given to how people comprehend ad-jective metaphors such as “red voice”. In this paper, we ad-dress adjective metaphors and argue that adjective metaphors are comprehended via a two-stage categorization process. In a two-stage categorization process, the adjective of an adjec