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Direct linkLowder, Matthew W.; Gordon, Peter C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Two eye-tracking experiments examined the effects of sentence structure on the processing of complement coercion, in which an event-selecting verb combines with a complement that represents an entity (e.g., "began the memo"). Previous work has demonstrated that these expressions impose a processing cost, which has been attributed to the…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Experiments, Sentence Structure, Verbs
Tabossi, Patrizia; Fanari, Rachele; Wolf, Kinou – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Three experiments tested the main claims of the idiom decomposition hypothesis: People have clear intuitions on the semantic compositionality of idiomatic expressions, which determines the syntactic behavior of these expressions and how they are recognized. Experiment 1 showed that intuitions are clear only for a very restricted number of…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Semiotics, Language Processing
