That's the way the cookie bounces: Syntactic and semantic components of experimentally elicited idiom blends

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-71

  Cutting, J Cooper ^a   Bock, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031013604     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03197285     Document Type: Article

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