{"pk":26369,"title":"L2 Idiom Processing: Figurative Attunement in Highly Idiomatic Contexts","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Using cross-modal priming, we investigated the processing of\nidioms in non-native listeners in varying experimental\ncontexts. As idiomatic processing models have presented\nevidence for an idiomatic mode of processing that can be\nactivated for non-native speakers in highly figurative contexts\n(Bobrow & Bell, 1973), this experiment revisits those claims\nwhile also examining access to figurative meaning in addition\nto the literal meaning of individual words within an idiom. This\nexperiment showed increased priming for visual targets related\nto the figurative meaning of an idiom when the experimental\nlist contained a large proportion of idiomatic sentences\ncompared to when the list contained only a small proportion of\nidiomatic sentences. Non-native speakers not only showed\nonline access to figurative meaning but were also sensitive to\nhighly idiomatic contexts; though, responses to the targets\nrelated to literal meaning of the final word of the idiom were\nfaster in all instances than figuratively-related targets.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"cross-modal priming; L2 listening; figurative\nlanguage; idioms; context; attunement"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/44g3r3cc","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sara","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Beck","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Tübingen","department":""},{"first_name":"Andrea","middle_name":"","last_name":"Weber","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Tübingen","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26369/galley/16005/download/"}]}