Individual word activation and word frequency effects during the processing of opaque idiomatic expressions.

ABSTRACT: Idiom processing studies have paid considerable attention to the relationship between idiomatic expressions as a whole and their constituent words. Although most research focused on the semantic properties of the constituent words, their orthographic form could also play a role in processing. To test this, we assessed both form and meaning activation of individual words during the processing of opaque idioms. In two primed word naming experiments, Dutch native speakers silently read sentences word by word and then named the last word of the sentence. This target word was embedded in either an idiomatic or a literal context and was expected and correct in this context (COR), semantically related (REL) to the expected word, or unrelated (UNREL) to the expected word. The correct target word i

SUBMITTER: Hubers F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9016674 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature