Metonymy in Language Acquisition: “Mummy, I like being a sandwich”

Nerlich, Brigitte

doi:10.1075/hcp.4.21ner

Part of

Metonymy in Language and Thought
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Günter Radden
[Human Cognitive Processing 4] 1999
► pp. 361–

“Mummy, I like being a sandwich”

Metonymy in Language Acquisition

Brigitte Nerlich

Published online: 15 September 1999

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.4.21ner

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