出版社：Faculdade de Letras, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
摘要：There are already a bulk of studies addressing idiom comprehension. However, developmental studies testing idiom comprehension in Portuguese are rare. This paper aims at presenting the results of an idiom comprehension task with 270 participants in three age groups (children, adolescents and adults). The task consists of six items: sentences followed by an open-ended question and a dichotomous one. A comparison between the three groups indicates a gradual increase in idiom comprehension. Besides age, linguistic variables such as context, transparency, metaphoricity and familiarity in the comprehension of idioms are discussed. The analyses suggest that this complex phenomenon should be studied considering all those aspects.
关键词：Idioms;Figurative language comprehension;Cognitive linguistics;Psycholinguistics;Expressões idiomáticas;Compreensão de linguagem figurada;Linguística cognitiva;psicolinguística;Expressões idiomáticas;Compreensão de linguagem figurada;Linguística cognitiva;psicolinguística
