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Direct linkCanal, Paolo; Pesciarelli, Francesca; Vespignani, Francesco; Molinaro, Nicola; Cacciari, Cristina – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
We investigated the extent to which the literal meanings of the words forming literally plausible idioms (e.g., "break the ice") are semantically composed and how the idiomatic meaning is integrated in the unfolding sentence representation. Participants read ambiguous idiom strings embedded in highly predictable, literal, and idiomatic…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Processing, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions
