Getting your wires crossed: evidence for fast processing of L1 idioms in an L2

Monolingual speakers show priming for idiomatic sequences (e.g. a pain in the neck) relative to matched controls (e.g. a pain in the foot); single word translation equivalents show cross-language activation (e.g. dog–chien) for bilinguals. If the lexicon is heteromorphic (Wray, 2002), larger units m...

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Main Authors: Carrol, Gareth, Conklin, Kathy
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28432/