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The Idiom Processing Advantage Is Explained by Surprisal
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Michaela Socolof; Timothy J. O'Donnell; Michael Wagner – Cognitive Science, 2025
It has been repeatedly found that idioms are processed faster than syntactically matched literal phrases, in both comprehension and production. This has led to debate about whether idioms are accessed as chunks or built compositionally, with different studies attempting to measure the effect of compositionality on processing, with differing…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Reading Comprehension, Language Processing