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idiom comprehension: a standalone construct

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Psycholinguistics

how people understand idioms, with the figurative meaning becoming available once enough of the phrase signals it is an idiom.

In psycholinguistics, idiom comprehension refers to how people understand idioms, with the figurative meaning becoming available once enough of the phrase signals it is an idiom. This meaning comes from Cacciari (1988) in Journal of Memory and Language.[1]

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References

Cacciari, C., & Tabossi, P. (1988). The comprehension of idioms. Journal of Memory and Language, 27(6), 668-683. https://doi.org/10.1016/0749-596x(88)90014-9

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