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Burnett, Debra L. – Journal of Child Language, 2015
Irony comprehension in seven- and eight-year-old children with typically developing language skills was explored under the framework of the graded salience hypothesis. Target ironic remarks, either conventional or novel/situation-specific, were presented following brief story contexts. Children's responses to comprehension questions were used to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Young Children, Figurative Language, Comprehension
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Stites, Lauren J.; Ozcaliskan, Seyda – Journal of Child Language, 2013
Time is frequently expressed with spatial motion, using one of three different metaphor types: moving-time, moving-ego, and sequence-as-position. Previous work shows that children can understand and explain moving-time metaphors by age five (Ozcaliskan, 2005). In this study, we focus on all three metaphor types for time, and ask whether metaphor…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Child Development, Developmental Stages, Time
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Levorato, Maria Chiara; Cacciari, Cristina – Journal of Child Language, 1992
Examined children's comprehension and production of idioms through the roles of familiarity and of different kinds of contextual information on comprehension. A sample of 264 children showed that familiarity (i.e., frequency of exposure) plays a minor role and only for children who are not yet able to use contextual information. (18 references)…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Context Effect
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Ozcaliskan, Seyda – Journal of Child Language, 2005
Situated within the framework of the conceptual metaphor theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999), this study investigated young children's understanding of metaphorical extensions of spatial motion. Metaphor was defined as a conceptual-linguistic mapping between a source and a target domain. The study focused on metaphors that are structured by the source…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Linguistics, Figurative Language, Motion
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Pollio, Marilyn R.; Pollio, Howard R. – Journal of Child Language, 1979
Reports on a study designed to: (1) produce a multiple-choice test which would measure children's comprehension of figurative language, and (2) obtain information about the development of figurative language comprehension in children. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Figurative Language