Publications

Publication details [#57684]

Özçalışkan, Şeyda and Lauren J. Stites. 2013. Teasing Apart the Role of Cognitive and Verbal Factors in Children's Early Metaphorical Abilities. Metaphor and Symbol 28 (2) : 116–129.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | cognition | metaphor | time deixis | verbal behavior

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study indicates that cognitive and verbal factors selectively portend (three- to six-year-old) children's developing metaphorical skills, focusing on spatial metaphors for time.