Adding more fuel to the fire: an eye-tracking study of idiom processing by native and non-native speaker

Using eye-tracking, we investigate on-line processing of idioms in a biasing story context by native and non-native speakers of English. The stimuli are idioms used figuratively (at the end of the day – ‘eventually’), literally (at the end of the day – ‘in the evening’), and novel phrases (at the en...

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Main Authors: Siyanova-Chanturia, Anna, Conklin, Kathy, Schmitt, Norbert
Format: Article
Published: SAGE Publications 2011
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28901/