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Download full textVosniadou, Stella; And Others – 1983
To investigate young children's understanding of metaphorical language, 90 chidren from preschool to third grade were read stories ending with metaphorical sentences of varying degrees of difficulty--sentences representing more or less predictable story outcomes and differing in the complexity and explicitness of their figures of speech. After…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages
