ABSTRACT

Recent years have seen growing interest in the mechanisms that underlie the online processing of formulaic sequences. The present chapter reviews a bulk of evidence that comes from psycholinguistic – comprehension and production – studies employing a range of paradigms (e.g., behavioural, eye-tracking, and ERPs), capitalizing on the differences between the processing in a first and second language, as well as the differences that may exist between the processing of various kinds of formulaic sequences.