The Roles of Idiomatic Keys and Component Words in the Understanding of Verb-Object Idiomatic Structure
Using the priming vocabulary judgment paradigm,this paper examines the role of idiomatic key and component words in the comprehension of verb-object structures.Experiment 1 examines whether there are idiomatic keys in high and low predictability idio-matic phrases,and finds that the existence of idiomatic keys affects comprehension.Experiment 2 examines whether constituent words play a role in the metaphorical activation of idiomatic expressions.It is found that the semantic violation of the last word hinds the meta-phorical activation in both immediate processing and delayed processing,and the semantic violation of the first word hinds the metaphor-ical activation in delayed processing.The whole study shows that the understanding of Chinese verb-object structure idiomatic expres-sions conforms to the mixed representation view,which is influenced by both the activation of component words and the structure of idio-matic expressions.
verb-object idiomspredictabilityidiomatic keycompositions of idiom
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