Cross-modal Priming in Idioms: The role of the idiomatic key

This experimental data was created in the context of the project B9; Getting a Grip on Non-Literal Meaning; The Dynamics of Understanding Idiomatic Expressions in Language Learners. It is a cross-modal priming study.
In two cross-modal priming experiments, L2 listeners were auditorily presented idioms in neutral sentences and responded to a lexical decision task on words related to the figurative meaning of the idioms or to a literal constituent of the idiom immediately after the offset of the idiomatic key.