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Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Development of Metaphor Comprehension

Metaphor Comprehension Special Issue


Metaphor comprehension in preschool children

Ariel Starr, Taylor Petersen and Sahana Sridhar

2025-03-05 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Development of Metaphor Comprehension • 1–29

Novel metaphor processing in young autistic children

Isabel Martín-González, Kristen Frances Schroeder, Elena Castroviejo, Ingrid Lossius Falkum and Agustín Vicente

2025-04-10 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Development of Metaphor Comprehension • 28–66

Not early, not late, but developing: Children's “good-enough” understanding of metaphors

Sarah Ferrara, Marc Aguert and Christelle Declercq

2025-05-11 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Development of Metaphor Comprehension • 67–92

Making beds and dying of boredom literally: A developmental study on the comprehension of nonliteral uses of language in autism

Marta Ponciano, Agustín Vicente, José Vicente Hernández Conde and Elena Castroviejo

2025-05-23 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Development of Metaphor Comprehension • 93–129

Decoupling literalist behavior from children’s early metaphor comprehension abilities

Mary Beth Neff and Ingrid Lossius Falkum

2025-07-02 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Development of Metaphor Comprehension • 130–171

Metaphor comprehension in preschool children: Individual differences and metaphor-related factors affecting children’s metaphor comprehension

Pelin Küçükerdoğan and Deniz Tahiroğlu

2025-07-24 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Development of Metaphor Comprehension • 172–203

‘Broccoli is candy’: The role of metaphors in children’s persuasive communication

Chiara Pompei, Serena Lecce, Paola Del Sette, Elena Didoni, Luca Bischetti and Valentina Bambini

2025-10-30 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Development of Metaphor Comprehension • 204–236