Native speakers kick buckets, but learners kick doors: A comparison of native and nonnative idiom comprehension.

Multiword expressions—also called multiword chunks, fixed expressions, lexical bundles, or formulaic sequences—are familiar sequences of words that occur with high frequency in language. Recent focus on multiword expressions, as distinct units of language with distinct processing ramifications, rais...

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Published in:	Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 5; pp. 1861 - 1884
Main Authors:	Milburn, Evelyn, Vulchanova, Mila, Vulchanov, Valentin, Saltzman, David, Magnuson, James
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Jul2026
Subjects:	Connecticut Norway Communicative competence Task performance Undergraduates Learning Figures of speech Scale analysis (Psychology) Research funding Grammar Phonological awareness Eye movement measurements English as a foreign language
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