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Literal Salience in On-Line Processing of Idiomatic Expressions by Second Language Learners
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Cieslicka, Anna – Second Language Research, 2006
This article addresses the question of how second language (L2) learners understand idiomatic expressions in their second/foreign language and advances the proposition that literal meanings of idiom constituents enjoy processing priority over their figurative interpretations. This suggestion forms the core of the literal-salience resonant model of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, Language Patterns, Language Processing