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They matched all phrases for length and familiarity, but the students still took longer to associate an idiomatic phrase with a linked word than to associate a literal phrase with its linked word.
It is all to easy for even an accomplished non-native speaker to make a mistake, especially with idiomatic phrases.
Hockett also maintains that an idiomatic phrase should be any expression of variable reference, without a fixed meaning in all situations (here he mentions anaphor one, numerals, deictic demonstratives this, that, proper names and personal pronouns.
 
 
 
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