{"pk":21679,"title":"What can L1 speakers tell us about killing hope? A Novel Behavioral Measure for Identifying Collocations","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Collocations, semi-productive lexical combinations with one\nfigurative and one literal word, are said to be a “pain in the\nneck” for researchers and L2 learners. The present study aims:\n(i) to conceptually replicate the processing costs incurred by\nL1 speakers when processing collocations using a larger and\nmore diverse set of items, (ii) to use literalness judgements\nto test whether L1 speakers are aware of the semi-transparent\nmeaning of a collocation, and (iii) to test whether the presence of processing costs associated with collocations can be predicted from literalness judgements. If so, we propose that literalness judgements could be used as a diagnostic for reli-\nably identifying collocations. We replicate the L1 processing\ncosts with a larger stimulus set and demonstrate that speakers\nare aware of the semi-transparent meaning of the collocation.\nWe further show that L1 speaker judgements about the literal-\nness of a word combination can be used to predict its status as a collocation.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Linguistics; Psychology; Language understanding; Semantics; Syntax"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3g45n971","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sydelle","middle_name":"","last_name":"de Souza","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Francis","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mollica","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Melbourne","department":""},{"first_name":"Jennifer","middle_name":"","last_name":"Culbertson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21679/galley/11278/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21679/galley/22072/download/"}]}