Effect of Frequency and Idiomaticity on Second Language Reading Comprehension.

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A Phrasal Expressions List (2012, background): “…unreasonable to guess that L2 learners processing those expressions might therefore actually believe they understand them (if they identify them) simply because the individual words are so well known, making them, in Laufer’s (1989) terms, ‘deceptively transparent’ (cf. Martinez and Murphy 2011).”
Not just ‘small potatoes’: Knowledge of the idiomatic meanings of collocations (2017, background): “…‘deceptively transparent’ (Boers et al., 2014) and this can cause deceptive comprehension, because L2 learners know the individual, usually very frequent general words, but are not familiar with these words in combination (Martinez & Murphy, 2011), especially when they carry a figurative meaning.”
How much collocation knowledge do L2 learners have?: the effects of frequency and amount of exposure (2015, background): “Although Martinez and Murphy (2011) worked with multiword expressions rather than collocations in particular, many of their instrument items appear to be collocations. learners lags behind their general language and vocabulary knowledge (Bahns and Eldaw, 1993; Wray, 2002).”