COMPOSITIONALITY/NON-COMPOSITIONALITY OF IDIOMS: NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS’ CONSTRAINTS TO COMPREHENSION

COMPOSITIONALITY/NON-COMPOSITIONALITY OF IDIOMS: NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS’ CONSTRAINTS TO COMPREHENSION

Informed by Jackendoff’s (1997) Representational Modularity (RM) Hypothesis which states that, similar to how people make sense of categories, they also systematically make sense of language. This study seeks to discover the way non-native speakers of English negotiate meaning when faced with idioma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yvonne Pedria Velasco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia 2016-07-01
Series:Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics
Subjects:
compositionality, passivization, quantification, idiomatic expression, non-native speakers
Online Access:http://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/IJAL/article/view/2745

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http://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/IJAL/article/view/2745

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