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“The moustache sits down first”: on the acquisition of metonymy

Journal of child language, 2017-01, Vol.44 (1), p.87-119 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 ;info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ;ISSN: 0305-0009 ;EISSN: 1469-7602 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0305000915000720 ;PMID: 26781847 ;CODEN: JCLGBJ

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Title:
“The moustache sits down first”: on the acquisition of metonymy
Author: FALKUM, INGRID L. ; RECASENS, MARTA ; CLARK, EVE V.
Subjects: Adult ; Adults ; Age Differences ; Child, Preschool ; Comprehension ; Female ; Humans ; Language Acquisition ; Language Development ; Language Processing ; Language Usage ; Learning ; Linguistics ; Logistic Models ; Male ; Metalinguistic awareness ; Metalinguistics ; Metaphor ; Metonymy ; Native language acquisition ; Preschool Children ; Studies ; Task Analysis ; Young Adult
Is Part Of: Journal of child language, 2017-01, Vol.44 (1), p.87-119
Description: This study investigates preschoolers’ ability to understand and produce novel metonyms. We gave forty-seven children (aged 2;9–5;9) and twenty-seven adults one comprehension task and two elicitation tasks. The first elicitation task investigated their ability to use metonyms as referential shorthands, and the second their willingness to name animates metonymically on the basis of a salient property. Although children were outperformed by adults, even three-year-olds could understand and produce metonyms in certain circumstances. Our results suggest that young children may find it easier to produce a metonym than a more elaborate referential description in certain contexts, and that metonymy may serve as a useful strategy in referring to entities that lack a conventional label. However, metonymy comprehension appeared to decrease with age, with older children tending to choose literal interpretations of some metonyms. This could be a result of growing metalinguistic awareness, which leads children to overemphasize literal meanings.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Language: English;Norwegian
Identifier: ISSN: 0305-0009
EISSN: 1469-7602
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000915000720
PMID: 26781847
CODEN: JCLGBJ
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
MEDLINE
NORA Norwegian Open Research Archives
ProQuest Central

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“The moustache sits down first”: on the acquisition of metonymy

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 ;info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ;ISSN: 0305-0009 ;EISSN: 1469-7602 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0305000915000720 ;PMID: 26781847 ;CODEN: JCLGBJ

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