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← Language & CommunicationWhy does reduced syntactic processing occur when encountering highly formulaic phrases?
A)Increased semantic ambiguity is induced
B)Working memory resources are exhausted
C)Lexical access faces greater competition
D)Retrieval bypasses syntactic construction✓
💡 Explanation
When encountering formulaic phrases, retrieval-based processing becomes dominant, because these phrases are stored as single units in memory. Therefore, syntactic construction is bypassed, rather than engaging in a compositional analysis, due to the direct memory access.
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