Processing Idiomatic Expressions: Effects of Semantic Compositionality

Autor/inn/en	Tabossi, Patrizia; Fanari, Rachele; Wolf, Kinou
Titel	Processing Idiomatic Expressions: Effects of Semantic Compositionality
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34 (2008) 2, S.313-327 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
Schlagwörter	Language Patterns; Semantics; Semiotics; Language Processing; Figurative Language; Intuition; Linguistic Theory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachmodell; Sprachstruktur; Semantik; Semiotik; Sprachverarbeitung; Linguistische Theorie
Abstract	Three experiments tested the main claims of the idiom decomposition hypothesis: People have clear intuitions on the semantic compositionality of idiomatic expressions, which determines the syntactic behavior of these expressions and how they are recognized. Experiment 1 showed that intuitions are clear only for a very restricted number of expressions, but for the majority of idioms, they are not consistent across speakers. Experiment 2 failed to support the claim that semantic compositionality influences the syntactic flexibility of idioms. Finally, Experiment 3 showed that idioms are more quickly recognized than their literal counterparts, regardless of compositionality and syntactic flexibility. All of the findings were at odds with the tenets of the idiom decomposition hypothesis. The theoretical implications of the results with respect to idiom processing and the notion of compositionality are discussed. (Author).
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