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Peer reviewedVosniadou, Stella; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Reports three experiments which examined preschool, first-grade, and third-grade children's understanding of metaphorical language. Subjects acted out short stories which ended in metaphorical sentences by using toys. Predictability of the story endings and the complexity of the metaphorical sentences are found to affect metaphor comprehension.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Figurative Language
