<div dir="ltr">Thank you Marilyn for the detailed list that you have compiled. definitely, I found the chapters quite comprehensive and they helped me see what was going on in the field in detail. I do appreciate your contribution.<br><br>On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 7:39:19 PM UTC+3, nip...@uoregon.edu wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear Huseyin,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Development of figurative language comprehension (including idioms) in children, adolescents, and adults has been investigated for many years.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For a summary (current as of 2007), including discussion of theories of development (e.g., metasemantic, language processing, language experience),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">please see the following book:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nippold, M. A. (2007). <i>Later language development: School-age children, adolescents, and young adults</i> (Chapters 8-11). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In addition, I am attaching a list of articles that you might find useful.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Best wishes,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Marilyn Nippold</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">University of Oregon</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="PozapjHQcooJ">info-c...@googlegroups.com</a> [mailto:<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="PozapjHQcooJ">info-c...@<wbr>googlegroups.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="PozapjHQcooJ">huy...@gmail.com</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 19, 2014 2:57 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="PozapjHQcooJ">info-c...@googlegroups.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Idiom comprehension in child language</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><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><br>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><ul type="disc"><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></ul><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#444444">Thanks,</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#444444">Huseyin</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group.<br>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to <a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="PozapjHQcooJ">info-childes...@<wbr>googlegroups.com</a>.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="PozapjHQcooJ">info-c...@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>To view this discussion on the web visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/42bbb759-e650-49c0-a362-2123ba4bdf72%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/<wbr>msgid/info-childes/42bbb759-<wbr>e650-49c0-a362-2123ba4bdf72%<wbr>40googlegroups.com</a>.<br>For more options, visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/optout" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/<wbr>optout</a>.</p></div></div></blockquote></div>

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