How to Save You Skin When Processing L2 Idioms: An Eye Movement Analysis of Idiom Transparency and Cross-language Similarity among Bilinguals
The current study looks at whether bilinguals varying in language dominance show a processing advantage for idiomatic over non-idiomatic phrases and to what extent this effect is modulated by idiom transparency (i.e., the degree to which the idiom’s figurative meaning can be inferred from its litera...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Urmia University
2017-10-01
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Series: | Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research |
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Online Access: | http://ijltr.urmia.ac.ir/article_20306_c631906faa0e3a398b367fb7919ce169.pdf |