Are Children More Accurate than Adults? Spontaneous Use of Metaphor by Children and Adults

Metaphor as Structure Mapping: The Relational Shift

Dedre Gentner · Child Development · 1988 · 649 citations

Cognition, Psycholinguistics, Lexical Semantics +20

Children and Metaphors

Stella Vosniadou · Child Development · 1987 · 250 citations

Language Development, Atypical Language Development, Education +21

Judgments and explanations as criteria for the presence of cognitive structures.

Charles J. Brainerd · Psychological Bulletin · 1973 · 183 citations

Cognitive Architecture, Cognitive Science, Visual Cognition +10

Betty is a bouncing bubble: Children's comprehension of emotion-descriptive metaphors.

John E. Waggoner, David S. Palermo · Developmental Psychology · 1989 · 152 citations

Child Psychology, Cognitive Science, Children's Literature +12

Telling it as it isn't: Children's understanding of figurative language

Amy P. Demorest, Lisa R. Silberstein, Howard Gardner et al. · British Journal of Developmental Psychology · 1983 · 127 citations

Language Development, Atypical Language Development, Psycholinguistics +22