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dc.date.created2019-08-22T22:48:59Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationKöder, Franziska Falkum, Ingrid Lossius . Children's metonymy comprehension: Evidence from eye-tracking and picture selection. Journal of Pragmatics. 2019, 1-15
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10852/75502
dc.description.abstractIn this paper we investigate children's processing and comprehension of metonymy, a type of figurative use of language where an object or individual is referred to via a salient property (e.g., The beard used to refer to a man with a big beard). We tested 126 children aged 3 to 8 years and an adult control group, using a novel methodology which combines an online (eye-tracking) and an offline (picture selection) measure. The results from the picture selection task replicate the findings of a U-shape reported in Falkum et al. (2017), with a better performance of 3-year-olds compared to 4- to-5-year-olds, who tend to prefer literal interpretations of target metonymic utterances. The gaze data, however, while also suggesting an early sensitivity to metonymy from the age of 3, show a continuous improvement of understanding with age. We discuss the results in the light of theoretical accounts of children's pragmatic development. We argue that eye-tracking is a ‘purer’ and cognitively less demanding measure of figurative language comprehension, which sheds new light on children's developing pragmatic competence.
dc.languageEN
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.titleChildren's metonymy comprehension: Evidence from eye-tracking and picture selection
dc.title.alternativeNBNorsk, bokmålNorwegian, bokmålChildren's metonymy comprehension: Evidence from eye-tracking and picture selection
dc.typeJournal article
dc.creator.authorKöder, Franziska
dc.creator.authorFalkum, Ingrid Lossius
cristin.unitcode185,14,35,80
cristin.unitnameCenter for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan
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dc.identifier.cristin1718160
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dc.identifier.jtitleJournal of Pragmatics
dc.identifier.volume156
dc.identifier.startpage191
dc.identifier.endpage205
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2019.07.007
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-78516
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dc.type.peerreviewedPeer reviewed
dc.source.issn0378-2166
dc.identifier.fulltextFulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/75502/4/1-s2.0-S0378216618305174-main.pdf
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dc.relation.projectNFR/240324
dc.relation.projectNFR/223265


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