Are figurative interpretations of idioms directly retrieved or compositionally built? Evidence from eye movement measures of first and second language reading
Idioms are part of a general class of multiword expressions that convey a figurative interpretation that is not fully determined through an on-demand compositional (syntactic and semantic) analysis of their component words (e.g., kick the bucket, save your skin). Idioms are simultaneously amenable...
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McGill University
2012
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