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Publication details [#43391]

Ozçaliskan, Seyda. 2005. On learning to draw the distinction between physical and metaphorical motion: is metaphor an early emerging cognitive and linguistic capacity? Journal of Child Language 32 (2) : 291–318.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | cognition | L1-acquisition | linguistic competence | metaphor

Language as a subject

Turkic

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Drawing on Lakoff & Johnsons's conceptual metaphor theory, this paper examines young children's comprehension of spatial motion's metaphorical extensions.