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Download full textVosniadou, Stella – 1985
The linguistic form of a nonliteral expression, and the context in which it occurs, can greatly influence young children's succcess or failure in assigning a meaning to a figurative expression. Experiments have shown that the same metaphorical expression can be easier to understand when expressed in a linguistic form that is familiar to young…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Context Clues, Information Processing
