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Dear Colleagues, I have been too swamped with requests to make good on my promise of sending out photocopies of my reference list by regular mail. I am posting here the key entries from my update (minus annotations). Additional entries appear under other headings in the book (Semantics of Child Language, etc.) and in the two earlier volumes. CACCIARI. The Comprehension of Idioms. Journal of Memory and Language (JML) 27 (1988), 668-683. FILLMORE. Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions. Language 64 (1988), 501-538. GIBBS. Linguistic Factors in Children's Understanding of Idioms. Journal of Child Language 14 (1987), 569-586. _____ et al. How to Kick the Bucket and not Decompose. JML 28 (1989), 576-593. ______. Psycholinguistic Studies on the Syntactic Behavior of Idioms. Cognitive Psychology 21 (1989), 100-138. ______. Speakers' Assumptions about the Lexical Flexibility of Idioms. Memory and Cognition 17 (1989), 58-68. ______. Idioms and Mental Imagery. Cognition 36 (1990), 35-68. GLASER. The Grading of Idiomaticity. In Werner Hullen et al., eds., Understanding the Lexicon (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1988), pp264-279. GRECIANO. Idiom und Text. Deutsche Sprache 15 (1987), 193-208. LATTEY. Pragmatic Classification of Idioms. International Review of Applied Linguistics 24 (1986), 217-233. MUELLER et al. Processing Idioms with Multiple Meanings. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research (JPR) 17 (1987), 63-81. POPIEL et al. The Figurative and Literal Senses of Idioms. JPR 17 (1988), 475-487. SCHRAW et al. Preferences for Idioms. JPR 17 (1988), 413-424. SCHWEIGERT. The Comprehension of Familiar and Less Familiar Idioms. JPR 15 (1986), 33-45. ______. The Muddy Waters of Idiom Comprehension. JPR 20 (1991), 305-314. ______ et al. Familiar Idiom Comprehension. JPR 17 (1988), 281-296. I would be glad to receive any references that I've missed. Terry Gordon.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue