Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab

Interview with Uta Frith on current trends in autism research and understanding of autism

Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass

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New exciting research published on idiom processing in the first and second language with a good sample size and advanced statistical analyses . The design is unusually rigorous based on our theoretical idea about idioms contra literal/free expressions

Native speakers kick buckets, but learners kick doors: A comparison of native and nonnative idiom comprehension - Memory & Cognition Multiword expressions—also called multiword chunks, fixed expressions, lexical bundles, or formulaic sequences—are familiar sequences of words that occur with high frequency in language. Recent focus on multiword expressions, as distinct units of language with distinct processing ramifications, ...