Collocational Frequency and Context Effects on Idiom Processing in Advanced L2 Speakers.
Multiword expressions have attracted attention recently following suggestions that they are acquired chunk-wise by children in the first language, while adults learning a second language may focus more on individual words within an expression. This is of particular interest for the acquisition of id...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Expérimentale Vol. 75; no. 2; pp. 169 - 175 |
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Canadian Psychological Association
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