Comprehension and production of metaphors: a study with pre-school children
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Comprehension, metaphors, pre-school children.Abstract
One of the aspects that draws the attention of researchers in relation to the child, specifically, is his lexical creativity, his ability to produce new words or, as stated by Figueira (1995), to coin them spontaneously, which he displays in his speech since very young at age.
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2000-07-15
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DEL RÉ, Alessandra. Comprehension and production of metaphors: a study with pre-school children. Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, [S. l.], v. 3, n. 1, p. 79–93, 2000. DOI: 10.5433/2237-4876.2000v3n1p79. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/4476. Acesso em: 11 dec. 2025.
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