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Peer reviewedNippold, Marilyn A.; Sullivan, Michael P. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 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
