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Autor:
Gareth Carrol, Kathy Conklin
Publikováno v:
Journal of Eye Movement Research, Vol 7, Iss 5 (2015)
Eye-tracking in linguistics has focused mainly on reading at the level of the word or sentence. In this paper we discuss how the phenomenon of formulaic language might best be examined using this methodology. Formulaic language is fundamentally multi
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https://doaj.org/article/c21044275dc342a3ba975cf61ef2b4c8
Publikováno v:
Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 45:370-392
Little is known about how nonnative speakers process novel language patterns in the input they encounter. The present study examines whether nonnatives develop a sensitivity to novel binomials and their ordering preference from context. Thirty-nine n
Autor:
Gareth Carrol, Kathryn Conklin
Publikováno v:
Applied Linguistics. 42:492-513
While it is possible to express the same meaning in different ways (‘bread and butter’ versus ‘butter and bread’), we tend to say things in the same way. As much as half of spoken discourse is made up of formulaic language or linguistic patte
Autor:
Emilia Castaño, Gareth Carrol
Publikováno v:
Dipòsit Digital de la UB
Universidad de Barcelona
Universidad de Barcelona
An eye-tracking while listening study based on the blank screen paradigm was conducted to investigate the processing of literal and metaphorical verbs of motion. The study was based on two assumptions from the litera- ture: that language comprehensio
Autor:
Jeannette Littlemore, Gareth Carrol
Publikováno v:
Discourse Processes. 57:609-626
Native speakers understand familiar idioms (e.g., over the moon) and conventional metaphors (e.g., describing time as a doctor) quickly and easily. In two eye-tracking studies we considered how nat...
Publikováno v:
Scientific Study of Literature. 9:3-33
We use eye tracking to investigate the attention readers pay to different textual features to determine their significance in the appreciation of prose fiction. Previous research examined attention allocation to lexical and punctuation variants, and
Autor:
Gareth Carrol, Holly Findlay
Publikováno v:
The Mental Lexicon. 13:311-332
Idiom studies typically consider variables such as familiarity, decomposability and literal plausibility, and the contributions of these to how figurative phrases are processed are well established. In this study we consider the effect of a previousl
Publikováno v:
Lingua. 204:21-44
Research into figurative language identifies variables such as familiarity, transparency, decomposability and motivation, all of which play an important role in how native and non-native speakers learn, process and understand figurative phrases. Howe
Autor:
Gareth Carrol
Gareth Carrol presents a collection of'modern idioms', which have become a part of our vocabulary in the past 50 years or so. In most cases, idioms such as'raining cats and dogs', that colour our everyday communication, are deeply rooted in culture a