To compare abstract structural and lexicalist accounts of syntactic processes in sentence formulation, we examined the effectiveness of nonidiomatic and idiomatic phrasal verbs in inducing structural generalizations. Three experiments made use of a syntactic priming paradigm in which participants recalled sentences they had read in rapid serial visual presentation. Prime and target sentences co...

Schizophrenia patients have been reported to be more impaired in comprehending non-literal than literal language since early studies on proverbs. Preference for literal rather than figurative interpretations continues to be documented. The main aim of this study was to establish whether patients are indeed able to use combinatorial semantic processing to comprehend literal sentences and both co...

Abstract This paper presents IdiomsTube ( https://www.idiomstube.com ), the first-ever computer-assisted language learning tool for facilitating of English idiomatic expressions from YouTube videos. The web-based is designed to automatically (1) assess speech rate and lexical difficulty level any learner-chosen English-captioned video; (2) generate a range vocabulary-building revision tasks (e....

In this paper, as I follow Oded Lipschits and Joseph Blenkinsopp’s argument regarding the continuity of cult at Bethel in post-exilic period, argue that polemics between Jerusalem reflect obvious dichotomy remainees returnees (golah) period. order to prove Bethel, first foremost, investigate identity delegations from Zech 7:2; light context 8:20-23, suggest is composed people city Bethel. By us...

TOEFL test is one type of English testing system to measure takers’ proficiency in grammar and structures as well academic skills such listening reading. Within Indonesian higher education context, postgraduate department students are required have a minimum score 500 order be able pass the thesis exam or graduate. As foreign language students, having high would challenging for them. This study...

This study investigates the processing of idiomatic variants through an eye-tracking experiment. Four types of idiom variants were included, in addition to the canonical form and the literal meaning. Results suggest that modifications to idioms, modulo obvious effects of length differences, are not more difficult to process than the canonical forms themselves. This fits with recent corpus findi...

this study investigated the comparative effect of teaching idiomatic expressions through practicing them in conversation and paragraph writing on intermediate efl learners’ idiom learning. the participants were sorted out of a population of 134 intermediate students in zabansara language school in khorramabad based on their scores on a preliminary english test (pet) and an idiom test piloted in...