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Processing Verbs in German Idioms: Evidence Against the Configuration Hypothesis

Eva Smolka Experimental and Biological Psychology, University of Marburg, Germany; Cognitive Neuroscience and Psycholinguistics, University of La Laguna, Spain
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Stefan Rabanus Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Verona, Italy
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Frank Rösler Experimental and Biological Psychology, University of Marburg, Germany
Pages 213-231 | Published online: 05 Dec 2007

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Eva Smolka, Katrin H. Preller & Carsten Eulitz. (2014) ‘Verstehen’ (‘understand’) primes ‘stehen’ (‘stand’): Morphological structure overrides semantic compositionality in the lexical representation of German complex verbs. Journal of Memory and Language 72, pages 16-36.
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E. Smolka & L. Dörre. (2013) Can You Reach for the Planets? – The Processing of Idioms in Aphasic Patients. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 94, pages 170-171.
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