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The ability to understand ambiguous idioms was assessed in 15 aphasic patients with preserved comprehension at a single word level. A string-to-word matching task was used. Patients were requested to choose one among four alternatives: a word associated with the figurative meaning of the idiom string; a word semantically associate with the last constituent of the idiom string; and two unrelated words...
Idiomatic expressions are often considered 'automatic speech' that need not be syntactically or morphologically parsed. However, there is a great structural variation within idioms, which could imply that not all idioms are processed alike. In the present case study with a deep dyslexic patient we compare reading of Finnish verb phrase idioms and noun phrase idioms. On the basis of the present experiments,...
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