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Roch, Maja; Levorato, Maria Chiara – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
In the current study, idiom understanding was analyzed in relation to the ability to process the linguistic context in which the idiom is embedded with the hypothesis that there is a strong relationship between text and idiom comprehension. This hypothesis was derived from the global elaboration model. Nonfamiliar idioms, both transparent and…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Processing, Sentences, Semantics