As easy as cake or a piece of pie? Processing idiom variation and the contribution of individual cognitive differences.
Language users routinely use canonical, familiar idioms in everyday communication without difficulty. However, creativity in idiom use is more widespread than sometimes assumed, and little is known about how we process creative uses of idioms, and how individual differences in cognitive skills contr...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 334 - 352 |
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