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Download full textGentner, Dedre; Stuart, Patricia – 1984
A study investigated developmental changes in children's fluency in interpreting metaphors. Specifically, it examined the development of an implicit interpretation strategy found in adults of mapping relational structure from base to target. Ten subjects from each of three age groups--five to six years, nine to ten years, and college-age…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
