The last ten years have seen an increased use of the eye-tracking methodology in the
investigation of vocabulary processing in both L1 and L2. In particular, some of the …

Concreteness describes the degree to which a word's meaning is understood through
perception and action. Many studies use the Brysbaert et al. concreteness ratings to …

Idioms are semantically non-compositional multiword units whose meanings often go
beyond literal interpretations of their component words (eg, break the ice, kick the bucket …

This paper begins by presenting the theoretical background of, and the accompanying
psycholinguistic findings on, idiom processing. The paper then widens its lens by comparing …

Les modèles de force lexicale fondés sur le corpus remettent en question le rôle de la
fréquence des mots comme principe d'organisation du lexique. Ce qui transparait de ceci …

Knowledge of multi-word expressions, such as break the ice, is an important aspect of
language proficiency that so far we have known surprisingly little about. For example, it is …

How the language processing system handles formulaic language such as idioms is a
matter of debate. We investigated the activation of constituent meanings by means of …

A broad overview of the many kinds of unitary expressions found in everyday verbal and
written communication, including their signature meaning, form, and usage, authored by a …

Past work has suggested that L1 readers retrieve idioms (ie, spill the tea) directly vs.
matched literal controls (drink the tea) following unbiased contexts, whereas L2 readers …

Abstract Language users routinely use canonical, familiar idioms in everyday
communication without difficulty. However, creativity in idiom use is more widespread than …