<div dir="ltr">Dear Bruno,<div><br></div><div>Definitely, "Idioms" is one of the best seminal works introducing the basic concepts in idiom research, and it is nice to confirm it with Wasow's words...</div><div><br></div><div>I have just finished reading Nayak and Gibbs' Conceptual knowledge in the interpretation of idioms, and recommend it along with its review by Kreuz and Graesser.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><br>On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 3:35:58 PM UTC+3, Bruno wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>Dear Huseyin,<br>
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I would say if you are working on idioms, do not forget to check
Nunberg, Sag, and Wasow's (1994) paper in Language, titled
"Idioms". It is available online if you google it. Tom Wasow used
to say that was the best paper he'd ever written. Although it
doesn't deal with child language per se, you absolutely must read
it in order to understand issues such as compositionality,
conventionality, and the interpretation of different kinds of
idioms.<br>
Bruno Estigarribia<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Dear
Huseyin.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I
think you will find the following paper useful:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Berman,
R.A. & D. Ravid. 2010. Interpretation and recall of
proverbs in three pre-adolescent populations. <i>First
Language</i>, 30, 155-173.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Dorit
Ravid</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
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<b>Subject:</b> Idiom comprehension in child language</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#444444">Dear
all,<br>
<br>
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).<br>
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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 <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123693747" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedirect.com/<wbr>science/book/9780123693747</a>).
So my questions are as follows:</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">What
is the direction of research in idiom comprehension in
child language?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Could
you suggest me some seminal works in idiom
comprehension, or more generally figurative language?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Is
there anyone to help me revise my experimental design?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">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.)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">A
third research field having just popped into my mind is
child directed speech. In what way can I integrate it
into my research?</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#444444">Thanks,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#444444">Huseyin</span></p>
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