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Peer reviewedDent, Cathy H. – Child Development, 1984
Investigates the perceptual basis of metaphor by asking 5-, 7-, and 10-year-old children and adults to pair and discuss films of natural objects, both stationary and moving. Concludes that motion information makes metaphoric similarity relatively easy to perceive and influences the form of descriptive metaphors. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Classification, Figurative Language
Peer reviewedRichards, D. Dean; Siegler, Robert S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Describes three experiments that examined how children (4- to 11-year-olds) use their knowledge of the attributes of living things to infer whether particular objects are alive. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Biological Sciences
