Publications

Publication details [#46267]

Özçalkan, Leyda. 2007. Metaphors We Move By: Children's Developing Understanding of Metaphorical Motion in Typologically Distinct Languages. Metaphor and Symbol 22 (2) : 147–168.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | L1-acquisition | metaphor | movement | typology

Language as a subject

English | Turkish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper discusses cross-linguistic similarities and differences in understanding of metaphorical motion by native English and native Turkish speaking 4- and 5-year-old children.