Adding more fuel to the fire: An eye-tracking study of idiom processing by native and non-native speakers
Adding more fuel to the fire: An eye-tracking study of idiom processing by native and non-native speakers
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火上浇油：母语者和非母语者习语加工的眼动追踪研究
DOI：
10.1177/0267658310382068
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
N. Schmitt
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作者：
A. Siyanova;K. Conklin;N. Schmitt
使用眼动跟踪技术，我们研究了英语母语者和非母语者在有偏见的故事背景下对习语的在线加工。刺激物是比喻(在一天结束时--‘最终’)、字面上(在一天结束时--‘在晚上’)和新奇短语(在战争结束时)使用的习语。以本族语为母语的人的结果表明，习语比新奇短语具有加工优势，这一点从更少和更短的注视中得到了证明。此外，在完整的习语分析或识别点分析中，比喻习语的使用没有发现比字面习语的处理优势。与本族语使用者的研究结果相反，研究结果表明，非母语使用者处理习语的速度与处理新短语的速度相似。此外，比喻用法的处理速度比字面用法要慢。重要的是，识别点分析使我们能够确定在处理比喻意义时，非母语者在哪里慢了下来。
Using eye-tracking, we investigate on-line processing of idioms in a biasing story context by native and non-native speakers of English. The stimuli are idioms used figuratively (at the end of the day — ‘eventually’), literally (at the end of the day — ‘in the evening’), and novel phrases (at the end of the war). Native speaker results indicate a processing advantage for idioms over novel phrases, as evidenced by fewer and shorter fixations. Further, no processing advantage is found for figurative idiom uses over literal ones in a full idiom analysis or in a recognition point analysis. Contrary to native speaker results, non-native findings suggest that L2 speakers process idioms at a similar speed to novel phrases. Further, figurative uses are processed more slowly than literal ones. Importantly, the recognition point analysis allows us to establish where non-natives slow down when processing the figurative meaning.