Getting your wires crossed: Evidence for fast processing of L1 idioms in an L2

Carrol, Gareth; Conklin, Kathy

doi:10.1017/s1366728913000795

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“…Furthermore, the idioms we used all had idiomatic counterparts in both languages. It would be interesting to vary this in future research to compare trained and untrained bilinguals' processing of idioms that have idiomatic counterparts in the other language with their processing of idioms that do not have counterparts in the other language (e.g., Carrol & Conklin, 2014).…”

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Does formal training in translation/interpreting affect translation strategy? Evidence from idiom translation

2016

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This study examined whether training in translation/interpretation leads to a reliance on a ‘vertical’ translation strategy in which the source language text is comprehended before the message is reformulated. Students of translation/interpreting and untrained bilinguals were given an idiom translation judgment task with literal (form and meaning) or figurative equivalents (meaning only). Dependent measures included the time taken to comprehend the first presented sentence and the accuracy and speed of judging if the second presented sentence was a translation of the first sentence. The groups did not differ in their speed of reading the first presented sentence but translation verification times differed by group and translation type: untrained bilinguals were significantly faster at verifying literal than figurative translations while trained bilinguals were equally fast for the two types. The pattern of findings is consistent with the view that training in translation fosters a processing-for-meaning-before reformulating, or vertical, translation strategy.

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Does formal training in translation/interpreting affect translation strategy? Evidence from idiom translation

2016

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“…Especially if we use literary texts such as poems not specially designed for research (Bailey and Zacks, 2011;Willems and Jacobs, 2016), simple or complex text features seldom occur without interacting with many other features on various levels. Although there have been studies on the reading of literary texts or poems (e.g., Sun et al, 1985;Lauwereyns and d'Ydewalle, 1996;Carrol and Conklin, 2014;Dixon and Bortolussi, 2015;Jacobs et al, 2016a,b;van den Hoven et al, 2016;Müller et al, 2017), the vast majority of eye tracking studies on reading were constrained to experimental textoids and tested only a few selected features while ignoring many others (Rayner et al, 2001;Reichle et al, 2003;Engbert et al, 2005;Rayner and Pollatsek, 2006;Rayner, 2009).…”

Section: Eye Movement Research On Poetry Readingmentioning

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What Is the Difference? Rereading Shakespeare’s Sonnets —An Eye Tracking Study

2020

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Texts are often reread in everyday life, but most studies of rereading have been based on expository texts, not on literary ones such as poems, though literary texts may be reread more often than others. To correct this bias, the present study is based on two of Shakespeare's sonnets. Eye movements were recorded, as participants read a sonnet then read it again after a few minutes. After each reading, comprehension and appreciation were measured with the help of a questionnaire. In general, compared to the first reading, rereading improved the fluency of reading (shorter total reading times, shorter regression times, and lower fixation probability) and the depth of comprehension. Contrary to the other rereading studies using literary texts, no increase in appreciation was apparent. Moreover, results from a predictive modeling analysis showed that readers' eye movements were determined by the same critical psycholinguistic features throughout the two sessions. Apparently, even in the case of poetry, the eye movement control in reading is determined mainly by surface features of the text, unaffected by repetition.

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“…When ample time for translation is available, facilitation of figurative meaning has been shown in bilinguals (Carrol & Conklin, 2014; Charteris-Black, 2002; Irujo, 1986; Laufer & Hill, 2000). Carrol and Conklin (2014) suggested spreading activation from native to non-native words within idioms in an English lexical decision task with self-paced reading of a prime sentence. The prime contained an idiom translated from the participants’ native language Chinese, and subsequently a target that finished the idiom was presented (e.g., feet in the translated Chinese idiom to draw a snake and add feet (meaning to ruin something by adding unnecessary detail ) or a matched control appeared ( hair ).…”

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The tug of war between an idiom's figurative and literal meanings: Evidence from native and bilingual speakers

Ginkel

Dijkstra

2019

Bilingualism

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In two lexical-decision experiments, we investigated the processing of figurative and literal meaning in idioms. Dutch native and German–Dutch bilingual speakers responded to target words presented after a minimal context idiom prime (e.g., ‘He kicked the bucket’). Target words were related to the figurative meaning of the prime (‘die’), the literal word at the end of the idiom (‘water’), or unrelated to both (‘face’). We observed facilitation in RTs for figuratively and literally related targets relative to unrelated targets for both participant groups. A higher frequency idiom-final word caused inhibition in responses to the literally related target for native speakers, indicating competition between the idiom as a whole and its literal word constituents. Native speakers further showed sensitivity to transparency of the idiom's meaning and the plausibility of the idiom as a literally interpretable sentence. The results are interpreted in terms of available L1/L2 idiom comprehension models, and a more detailed processing account for literal and idiomatic sentence interpretation.

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Getting your wires crossed: Evidence for fast processing of L1 idioms in an L2

Cited by 59 publications

References 44 publications

Does formal training in translation/interpreting affect translation strategy? Evidence from idiom translation

Does formal training in translation/interpreting affect translation strategy? Evidence from idiom translation

What Is the Difference? Rereading Shakespeare’s Sonnets —An Eye Tracking Study

The tug of war between an idiom's figurative and literal meanings: Evidence from native and bilingual speakers

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