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Johanson, Megan; Papafragou, Anna – Cognitive Science, 2014
Children's overextensions of spatial language are often taken to reveal spatial biases. However, it is unclear whether extension patterns should be attributed to children's overly general spatial concepts or to a narrower notion of conceptual similarity allowing metaphor-like extensions. We describe a previously unnoticed extension of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Young Children, English, Greek