Spoken idiom recognition: Meaning retrieval and word expectancy

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 465-495

  Tabossi, Patrizia ^a   Fanari, Rachele ^a   Wolf, Kinou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Figurative language; Idiom recognition; Spoken language processing; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 25644437072     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-005-6204-y     Document Type: Article

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