Are Figurative Interpretations of Idioms Directly Retrieved, Compositionally Built, or Both? Evidence From Eye Movement Measures of Reading.

Idioms are part of a general class of multiword expressions where the overall interpretation cannot be fully determined through a simple syntactic and semantic (i.e., compositional) analysis of their component words (e.g., kick the bucket, save your skin). Idioms are thus simultaneously amenable to...

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Published in:	Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Expérimentale Vol. 73; no. 4; pp. 216 - 231
Main Authors:	Titone, Debra, Lovseth, Kyle, Kasparian, Kristina, Tiv, Mehrgol
Format:	Article
Published:	Canadian Psychological Association Dec2019
Subjects:	Figures of speech Memory Psycholinguistics Reading Semantics Eye movements
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