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Direct linkChiara Levorato, Maria; Nesi, Barbara; Cacciari, Cristina – Brain and Language, 2004
The aim of the present study was to investigate idiom comprehension in school-age Italian children with different reading comprehension skills. According to our hypothesis, the level of a child's text comprehension skills should predict his/her ability to understand idiomatic meanings. Idiom comprehension in fact requires children to go beyond a…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 4, Language Patterns, Figurative Language
