ABSTRACT
Given these great diversities, it is not surprising that the scope of most studies on idioms is often rather limited, with theoretical claims and empirical findings typically being restricted only to some subset of those expressions, or to some specific aspects of the many processes involved in their comprehension (or both). The work presented here is no exception, and the admittedly partial approach it takes is one that looks at idioms from the standpoint of spoken language process ing, focusing on the question of when during comprehension do idiomatic mean ings become available.
