caa a22 4500 386335052 CHVBK 20180307111730.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S014271640000850X doi S014271640000850X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S014271640000850X Johnson Janice York University Factors related to cross-language transfer and metaphor interpretation in bilingual children [Elektronische Daten] [Janice Johnson] The study examines factors underlying cross-language transfer in bilingual children; the main focus is on a measure of metaphor interpretation. Subjects were Spanish-English children ranging in age from 7 to 12 years. Measures were obtained for nonverbal mental capacity, metaphor interpretation, verbal-conceptual repertoire, and linguistic proficiency in English and Spanish. Using a previously validated procedure, subjects' metaphor interpretations were scored for cognitive complexity. In both languages, metaphor score was higher in older than in younger children. Correlational analyses indicated that level of metaphor interpretation was most strongly related to cognitive-developmental variables that are interdependent across languages, that is, nonverbal mental capacity and verbal-conceptual repertoire. Variables that measure specific proficiency in a language were less strongly related to level of metaphor interpretation, and did not exhibit cross-language correlations. This pattern was clearly seen in results of exploratory factor analyses. The role of cognitive versus linguistic factors in metaphor development is discussed, as is the issue of interdependence versus independence across first and second languages. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Applied Psycholinguistics Cambridge University Press 10/2(1989-06), 157-177 0142-7164 10:2<157 1989 10 APS https://doi.org/10.1017/S014271640000850X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S014271640000850X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Johnson Janice York University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Applied Psycholinguistics Cambridge University Press 10/2(1989-06), 157-177 0142-7164 10:2<157 1989 10 APS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge