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VOSNIADOU, STELLA. Children and Metaphors. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1987, 58, 870-885. Recent research on the development of children's abilities to comprehend and produce metaphorical language is reviewed. It is argued that the ability to produce and comprehend metaphorical language emerges out of children's undifferentiated similarity notions and develops gradually to encompass a greater variety of conceptual domains. Although we do not yet have adequate theories of how metaphor comprehension or production develop, there is good reason to believe that this is a continuous rather than a stagelike process, and that it is constrained primarily by limitations in children's knowledge and information-processing abilities. Furthermore, it appears that the comprehension and production of metaphorical language involve transfer of knowledge from one conceptual domain to another which, on the one hand, depends critically on the conceptual knowledge the child already has, and on the other acts to enrich and advance this conceptual knowledge.
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