Idiom comprehension in child language

[Marilyn Nippold]

Dear Huseyin,

 

Development of figurative language comprehension (including idioms) in children, adolescents, and adults has been investigated for many years.

For a summary (current as of 2007), including discussion of theories of development (e.g., metasemantic, language processing, language experience),

please see the following book:

 

Nippold, M. A. (2007). Later language development: School-age children, adolescents, and young adults (Chapters 8-11). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. 

 

In addition, I am attaching a list of articles that you might find useful.

 

Best wishes,

Marilyn Nippold

University of Oregon

USA

 

 

 

From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of huysal9 at gmail.com
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 2:57 PM
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Subject: Idiom comprehension in child language

 

Dear all,

First of all, I would like to express my excitement about posting my first question in this group (Of course, after reading the older posts).

I have been reading about Prototype Theory of Eleanor Rosch, which is the point of departure for my M.A thesis, within the frame of child language development. Then I suddenly found myself trying to design steps for (an) experiment(s) in idiom comprehension. I am partly aware of the literature in figurative language processing (thanks to the comprehensive chapter by Gibbs and Colston in http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123693747). So my questions are as follows:

*	What is the direction of research in idiom comprehension in child language?
*	Could you suggest me some seminal works in idiom comprehension, or more generally figurative language?
*	Is there anyone to help me revise my experimental design?
*	What kind of an effect could prototypicality of concepts in idioms have on children's comprehension? (Feel free to share your criticism or advice, if you prefer to look at this research question from another perspective.)
*	A third research field having just popped into my mind is child directed speech. In what way can I integrate it into my research?

Thanks,

Huseyin

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