Comprehension of Idioms by Children with Learning Disabilities: Metaphoric Transparency and Syntactic Frozenness

How to kick the bucket and not decompose: Analyzability and idiom processing

Raymond W. Gibbs, Nandini Nayak, Cooper Cutting · Journal of Memory and Language · 1989 · 402 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Natural Language Processing +7

Linguistic factors in children's understanding of idioms

Raymond W. Gibbs · Journal of Child Language · 1987 · 190 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Child Development +13

Syntactic frozenness in processing and remembering idioms

Raymond W. Gibbs, Gayle P. Gonzales · Cognition · 1985 · 166 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Psychology +14

Idiom Interpretation in Isolation versus Context

Marilyn A. Nippold, Stephanie Tarrant Martin · Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research · 1989 · 158 citations

Education, Human Development, Linguistics +15

On comprehending idioms: Do children get the picture?

Brian P. Ackerman · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology · 1982 · 157 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Child Development +10