Representing Idioms: Syntactic and Contextual Effects on Idiom Processing.
Recent work on the processing of idiomatic expressions argues against the idea that idioms are simply big words. For example, hybrid models of idiom representation, originally investigated in the context of idiom production, propose a priority of literal computation, and a principled relationship be...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 373 - 395 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Sep2013
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