Idiom comprehension in child language

[huysal9 at gmail.com]

Hi again,

Could someone access to these papers?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8820708
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10877433

Best,
Huseyin

On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 00:56:54 UTC+3, huy... at gmail.com wrote:
>
> 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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