Children's Exposure to Irony in the First Four Years of Their Life: What We Learn About the Use of Ironic Comments by Mothers from the Analysis of the Providence Corpus of Childes
There has been little research conducted on the use of figurative language in parents' input provided by caregivers in child-directed speech during the first four years of the child's life. The aim of the described study was to check (a) how often ironic comments are present in child-direc...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2019-01-01
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| Series: | Psychology of Language and Communication |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/plc-2019-0001 |