Using metaphors as modifiers : Children's production of metaphoric compounds
In: Journal of child language (Print), Jg. 24 (1997), Heft 3, S. 567-601
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Although much research has investigated children's use of metaphoric language, methodological concerns raise questions about the conclusions, and it remains unclear whether preschoolers can produce metaphors. These studies employed a new methodology to test children's ability to produce metaphors incorporated into metaphoric compounds. In two studies, 59 children aged 2; 8-4; 3, 63 children aged 4; 4-6 ; I, and 34 adults participated in elicited production tasks. In Study I, subjects in the COMPOUND condition corrected a puppet's incorrect compound labels for pictures that had metaphoric resemblances to other objects (e.g. 'leaf-bug' for a bug shaped like a stick). Subjects in the NON-METAPHORIC condition heard incorrect compounds describing pictures without obvious metaphoric resemblance (e.g. 'leaf-bug' for a round black beetle). Children in the REVERSAL condition heard compounds with nouns reversed (e.g. 'bug-leaf' for the stick-bug) to discover whether children distinguished between the literal and metaphoric labels. Study 2 provided an additional test of children's metaphoric-literal distinction. Results showed that children as young as 3 ;0 produced intentional, appropriate metaphors incorporated into compound nouns when the stimuli and puppet's labels primed recognition of metaphoric similarity and compound production. Moreover, children showed evidence of a distinction between literal and metaphoric labels. The data show that preschool children have an early ability to use metaphoric language but that significant developmental change occurs between the ages of 3;0 and 5 ; 0 as well as beyond 5 ; 0. Additionally, metaphoric language in preschoolers is not limited to single-word renamings.
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Using metaphors as modifiers : Children's production of metaphoric compounds
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | GOTTFRIED, G. M |
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Zeitschrift: | Journal of child language (Print), Jg. 24 (1997), Heft 3, S. 567-601 |
Veröffentlichung: | NewYork, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
Umfang: | print; 1 p.3/4 |
ISSN: | 0305-0009 (print) |
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