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Peer reviewedCacciari, Cristina; Levorato, Maria Chiara – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Three experiments gauging 7- to 10-year-old children's ability to interpret and comprehend figurative language indicated that informative contexts could improve subjects' abilities to perceive idiomatic meanings. Subjects were less able to produce idioms than to comprehend them, but were able to perceive that language can be both figurative and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Figurative Language, Idioms
Peer reviewedWinner, Ellen – Journal of Child Language, 1979
Reports on a study investigating the nature of metaphoric language in children's usage, specifically examining the unconventional word uses of one child between the ages of two years, three months, and four years, ten months. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Figurative Language, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedPollio, 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
