Idiom Processing: What Primes Idioms
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Since the idiom principle (Sinclair 1987), idioms have been studied through various approaches. However, little research has been carried out to directly address the activation and access of idioms in language production. The aim of this study is twofold: First, it investigates the type of primes that activates idioms most in Korean L2 learners’ production, and second, the study further explores whether the way idioms are memorized and stored in their mental lexicon reflects the retrieval process of the idioms in production. Results suggest that idiom processing is affected by the types of primes. The first word of the target idiom was found to be the most efficient trigger. This implies that components of idioms contribute to the access to the whole conceptual/meaning representation. Semantically related L1 was the second most efficient prime found in the study, which suggests L1 lemma mediation in L2 idiom processing. Definition in L2, followed by definition in L1 was found to be an inefficient prime, which indicates the importance of context in idiom learning and teaching. There was a strong positive correlation between L1-mediated idiom learning and idiom processing facilitated by L1 primes. That is, if L1 is utilized as a cue to memorize idioms, the L1 information may be used as a prime in idiom production.
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Since the idiom principle (Sinclair 1987), idioms have been studied through various approaches. However, little research has been carried out to directly address the activation and access of idioms in language production. The aim of this study is twofold: First, it investigates the type of primes that activates idioms most in Korean L2 learners’ production, and second, the study further explores whether the way idioms are memorized and stored in their mental lexicon reflects the retrieval process of the idioms in production. Results suggest that idiom processing is affected by the types of primes. The first word of the target idiom was found to be the most efficient trigger. This implies that components of idioms contribute to the access to the whole conceptual/meaning representation. Semantically related L1 was the second most efficient prime found in the study, which suggests L1 lemma mediation in L2 idiom processing. Definition in L2, followed by definition in L1 was found to be an inefficient prime, which indicates the importance of context in idiom learning and teaching. There was a strong positive correlation between L1-mediated idiom learning and idiom processing facilitated by L1 primes. That is, if L1 is utilized as a cue to memorize idioms, the L1 information may be used as a prime in idiom production.
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