The role of idiom length and context in spoken idiom comprehension

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 321-334

  Fanari, Rachele ^a   Cacciari, Cristina ^b   Tabossi, Patrizia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Cross modal lexical decision; Idiom; Lexical processing; Spoken language

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77951680253     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: 14640635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440902843866     Document Type: Article

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