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Sharratt, P. A. – 1985
An examination of the use of metaphors by children summarizes the views of metaphor as found in the literature and describes a theoretical framework for the study of such utterances in young children by integrating two hypotheses. It is postulated that the young child uses metaphor to test new inferences about various kinds of relationships in the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Creative Thinking, Expressive Language, Intellectual Development
