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Journal of Speech and Hearing Research Vol.35 580-587 June 1992.
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Young Children's Idiom Comprehension

Trying To Get the Picture

G. G. Abkarian 1
Alison Jones 2

Gretchen West 3
1 Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO
2 Nova Care, Inc. Fort Collins, CO
3 Minnetonka, MN

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.

KEY WORDS: comprehension, language, idioms, children

Submitted on June 10, 1991
Accepted on September 30, 1991


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