预测性、语义倾向性对惯用语理解的影响

通过两个移动窗口阅读实验，探讨了不同预测性和语义倾向性的惯用语在不同语境下的阅读时间。实验一发现：倾向字面意义的惯用语在比喻意义语境下有抑制效应；倾向比喻意义的惯用语在字面意义语境下有抑制效应。实验二发现：低预测性惯用语在比喻意义语境下有抑制效应；高预测性惯用语在字面意义语境下有抑制效应。研究结果否认了惯用语已词汇化的观点，支持了结构假说的观点，证明惯用语的理解是一个构造过程。

THE EFFECTS OF PREDICTABILITY AND SEMANTIC BIAS IN IDIOM COMPREHENSION

Two moving window experiments were designed to investigate the effects of predictability and semantic bias in idiom comprehension in different contexts. Experiment one found that literal biased idioms were restrained in figurative context and figurative biased idioms were restrained in literal context. Experiment two found that low predictable idioms were restrained in figurative context and high predictable idioms were restrained in literal context. The results had denied the dead metaphor hypothesis and supported the configuration hypothesis. It was proved that the comprehension of idiom was a compositional process.