Comprehension of Idioms by Children with Learning Disabilities: Metaphoric Transparency and Syntactic Frozenness |
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Authors: | Eileen P Abrahamsen Debra Burke-Williams |
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Institution: | Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virgina, USA. eabraham@odu.edu |
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Abstract: | Third and fifth grade children with and without learning disabilities participated in this study. Syntactically frozen and flexible idioms and transparent and opaque idioms were used as stimuli to examine the ability to identify the correct idiom and to explain idiom meanings. Grade and diagnostic category affected performance on the explanation task but not on the forced choice task. Idiom type was also a factor affecting comprehension and explanation. Literal responses occurred rarely and were more likely to occur on the forced choice task. |
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Keywords: | idiom comprehension learning disabilities idiom types idiom explanation |
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