Individual word activation and word frequency effects during the processing of opaque idiomatic expressions
| Autor: | Helmer Strik, Ferdy Hubers, Catia Cucchiarini, Ton Dijkstra |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Cognitive and developmental aspects of Multilingualism
Physiology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Context (language use) Meaning (non-linguistic) Language and Speech Learning and Therapy Physiology (medical) Noun Humans General Psychology Language Psycholinguistics General Medicine Semantic property Linguistics Language & Communication Semantics Word lists by frequency Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Reading Grammar & Cognition Psychology Comprehension Priming (psychology) Word (group theory) Sentence |
| Zdroj: | The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75, 6, pp. 1004-1020 The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75, 1004-1020 |
| ISSN: | 1747-0218 |
| Popis: | Contains fulltext : 237071.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Idiom processing studies have paid considerable attention to the relationship between idiomatic expressions as a whole and their constituent words. Although most research focused on the semantic properties of the constituent words, their orthographic form could also play a role in processing. To test this, we assessed both form and meaning activation of individual words during the processing of opaque idioms. In two primed word naming experiments, Dutch native speakers silently read sentences word by word and then named the last word of the sentence. This target word was embedded in either an idiomatic or a literal context, and was either expected/correct in this context (COR), or semantically related (REL) or unrelated (UNREL) to the expected word. The correct target word in the idiomatic context was always part of an opaque idiom. Faster naming latencies for the idiom-final noun than for the unrelated target in the idiomatic context indicated that the idiom was activated as a whole during processing. In addition, semantic facilitation was observed in the literal context (COR |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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