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6 - Contrasting Bilingual and Monolingual Idiom Processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2015

By
Debra Titone ,
Georgie Columbus ,
Veronica Whitford ,
Julie Mercier  and
Maya Libben
Edited by
Roberto R. Heredia  and
Anna B. Cieślicka
Debra Titone
Affiliation:
McGill University
Georgie Columbus
Affiliation:
McGill University
Veronica Whitford
Affiliation:
McGill University
Julie Mercier
Affiliation:
McGill University
Maya Libben
Affiliation:
McGill University
Roberto R. Heredia
Affiliation:
Texas A & M University
Anna B. Cieślicka
Affiliation:
Texas A & M University
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In this chapter, we survey what is currently known about bilingual idiom processing and present data from a study that investigates three questions about the comprehension of idioms in English-French bilinguals. First, do the linguistic factors that control monolingual idiom comprehension (e.g., familiarity, literal plausibility, semantic decomposability; Libben & Titone, 2008) similarly control bilingual comprehension? Second, does an idiom’s cross-language similarity affect comprehension? Third, does native language status interact with idiom processing in these respects? To address these questions, we conducted a comprehension study where English-French bilinguals read English sentences that included idioms from a prior normative first-language study that were further coded for their similarity to idioms in French. We also manipulated whether the idiom-final word was presented in English (intact condition) or French (code-switched condition). The results suggest that bilinguals are sensitive to the same linguistic factors that control idiom processing for monolinguals (i.e., familiarity) and that previous work suggesting an increased role for semantic decomposability (Abel, 2003) may actually be due to cross-language overlap. The implications for bilingual lexical representation and processing are discussed.

Keywords: bilingualism, idiom processing, code-switching, figurative language processing, idiomatic expressions

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Bilingual Figurative Language Processing , pp. 171 - 207
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Print publication year: 2015

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