caa a22 4500 469052929 CHVBK 20180323132835.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01068305 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01068305 Needham William Division of Natural Sciences, State University of New York at Purchase, 10577, Purchase, New York aut Limits on literal processing during idiom interpretation [Elektronische Daten] [William Needham] Two experiments investigated the extent to which literal processing occurs in comprehending figurative idiomatic expressions. Subjects read stories on a cathode-ray tube (CRT). Target phrases, some of which were idioms, contained nouns which were potential anaphors of previously mentioned referents. A method developed by Dell, McKoon and Ratcliff (1983) was used to determine whether subjects carried out semantic processing resulting in activation of the referents of those anaphors. In Experiment 1 the targets consisted of either an idiom or a literal phrase, each including the same potential anaphor, or a control phrase. Results suggest that the preceding referent was activated by the anaphor in the literal phrase, but not by the potential anaphor in the idiomatic phrase. Experiment 2 showed that these results were not due to differences in the materials used. These results are interpreted as supporting the hypothesis that when an idiomatic phrase is interpreted figuratively full literal semantic processing of that phase is not necessarily carried out. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1992 Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/1(1992-01-01), 1-16 0090-6905 21:1<1 1992 21 10936 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01068305 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01068305 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Needham William Division of Natural Sciences, State University of New York at Purchase, 10577, Purchase, New York aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/1(1992-01-01), 1-16 0090-6905 21:1<1 1992 21 10936 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer