Contextual and Linguistic Factors in Children's Comprehension of Nonliteral Language. Technical Report No. 340 / Stella Vosniadou.

The linguistic form of a nonliteral expression, and the context in which it occurs, can greatly influence young children's succcess or failure in assigning a meaning to a figurative expression. Experiments have shown that the same metaphorical expression can be easier to understand when expressed in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Vosniadou, Stella
Corporate Authors:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1985.
Subjects:	Child Language. Concept Formation. Context Clues. Information Processing. Language Acquisition. Language Processing. Language Research. Language Usage. Metaphors. Reading Comprehension. Information Analyses. Reports, Research. Speeches/Meeting Papers.
Genre:	Information Analyses. Reports, Research. Speeches/Meeting Papers.
Physical Description:	27 pages
Format:	Microfilm Book

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