How Adolescents Comprehend Unfamiliar Proverbs: The Role of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 621-630

  Nippold, Marilyn A ^a   Allen, Melissa M ^a   Kirsch, Dixon I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Comprehension; Figurative language; Language development; Proverbs

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; LITERATURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APHORISMS AND PROVERBS; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0034201232     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4303.621     Document Type: Article

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