New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development · 1979 · 17 citations · 4 references
NeurolinguisticsLanguage DevelopmentPsycholinguisticsLexical SemanticsSemanticsLanguage LearningApplied LinguisticsCognitive LinguisticsSecond Language AcquisitionSyntaxExperimental PragmaticLanguage AcquisitionDiscourse AnalysisLanguage StudiesFirst YearCognitive SciencePragmaticsPhilosophy Of LanguageLinguistic MetaphorsSuch Comprehension RestsVisual MetaphorLanguage ScienceLanguage ComprehensionLinguistics
The ability to decode linguistic metaphors is a skill that develops relatively late, but the constitution on which such comprehension rests emerges in the first year.
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