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Direct linkZajaczkowska, Maria; Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Kim, Christina S. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Mentalising has long been suggested to play an important role in irony interpretation. We hypothesised that another important cognitive underpinning of irony interpretation is likely to be children's capacity for mental set switching -- the ability to switch flexibly between different approaches to the same task. We experimentally manipulated…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Task Analysis, Children, Language Acquisition
