Familiarity of Idioms in Canadian 12-year old Children

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Reimber, Amanda
  • Volden, Joanne
  • Boyes, Kimberley

• Idioms are expressions in which the literal meaning differs from the meaning of that same expression when it occurs within a certain context. This study will determine whether idioms determined to be familiar in previous studies are still familiar and whether Canadians rate the familiarity of idioms similarly to participants in other countries.

• Date created

  2011-01-13

• Subjects / Keywords

  • 12-year old children
  • Idiom familiarity

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3QB9V58P

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International