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Bergelson, Elika; Swingley, Daniel – Child Development, 2018
To understand spoken words, listeners must appropriately interpret co-occurring talker characteristics and speech sound content. This ability was tested in 6- to 14-months-olds by measuring their looking to named food and body part images. In the "new talker" condition (n = 90), pictures were named by an unfamiliar voice; in the…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Processing, Infant Behavior, Food
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Vosniadou, 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