Found in translation: a psycholinguistic investigation of idiom processing in native and non-native speakers

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Found in translation: a psycholinguistic investigation of idiom processing in native and non-native speakers

Idioms, as highly familiar word combinations, are processed quickly by native speakers, but are problematic for non-native speakers even at high levels of proficiency. In this thesis I explore the representation of idioms in the monolingual and bilingual lexicons. In a series of studies I investigat...

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Main Author:	Carrol, G.
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	Idioms formulaic language mental lexicon bilingual processing eye-tracking
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30651/

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