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What norming reveals about idioms: Making the case for a presuppositional account.

While early accounts of idiomatic expressions proposed that they are compositional or else directly retrievable from memory, the multi-determined view posited that idiom comprehension depends on observable characteristics, such as meaningfulness, familiarity, literal plausibility, global decomposabi...

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Published in:Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 8; pp. 2424 - 2451
Main Authors: Griffen, Nicholas, Noveck, Ira
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Nov2025
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Empirical research
Psycholinguistics
Linguistics
Achievement tests
Memory
Figures of speech
Semantics
Vocabulary
Judgment (Psychology)
Cognition
Scale analysis (Psychology)
Research funding
Data analysis
Questionnaires
Phonological awareness
Pilot projects
Descriptive statistics
Statistics
Online information services
Comparative studies
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