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Languages, Volume 10, Issue 7
July 2025 - 28 articles
Cover Story: Do heritage speakers engage the same inferential and decoding strategies as L1 or L2 speakers when processing idioms? Results of this eye-tracking study show that native speakers read familiar idioms faster than equivalent literal expressions, such as blacklist compared to secret list, confirming the idiom superiority effect under conditions where idioms are familiar, semantically opaque, and lack a plausible literal reading. L2 speakers also benefit from idiomaticity, while heritage speakers seem to have processing difficulty with such non-compositional meanings. These findings suggest that heritage speakers follow distinct comprehension strategies, shaped by their specific language acquisition context. View this paper
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