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 …
SA Sprenger, A la Roi, J Van Rij - Frontiers in Communication, 2019 - frontiersin.org
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 …
R Kessler, A Weber, CK Friedrich - Language and Speech, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …