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Publication Date: 1987
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Verbal and Perceptual Analogical Reasoning and Proportional Metaphor Comprehension in Young Children.
Nippold, Marilyn A.; Sullivan, Michael P.
Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, v30 n3 p367-76 Sep 1987
The study with 30 five-year-olds and 30 seven-year-olds demonstrated that children as young as five have an emerging ability to solve both verbal and perceptual proportional analogy problems and to detect the meaning of proportional metaphoric sentences. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Metaphors, Problem Solving, Young Children
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Language: English
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