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Young Children's Idiom Comprehension

Published:1992-06 Issue:3 Volume:35 Page:580-587
ISSN:1092-4388
Container-title:Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
language:en
Short-container-title:J Speech Lang Hear Res

Author:

Abkarian G. G.¹,Jones Alison²,West Gretchen³

Affiliation:

1. Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO

2. Nova Care, Inc. Fort Collins, CO

3. Minnetonka, MN

Abstract

Young children (3.5–6.5 years of age) were tested for their comprehension of 10 common idioms in context and no-context conditions. Results revealed a significant linear trend for children to make more literal responses with increasing age. Children of this age did not find the story contexts helpful in interpreting the idioms. A range of comprehension scores was found among the individual idioms, but semantic transparency (as judged by adults) was not related to comprehension. Child-internal and methodologic variables influencing idiom comprehension are discussed.

Publisher

American Speech Language Hearing Association

Subject

Speech and Hearing,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

http://pubs.asha.org/doi/pdf/10.1044/jshr.3503.580

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