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Dear Mike,
I wrote my dissertation many years ago on the emergence of playful metaphoric
language. See: Winner, E. (1979). New names for old things:The emergence of
metaphoric language. Journal of Child Language, 6, 469-491. Also chapter 5 of
my book, The point of words: Children's understanding of metaphor and
irony(Harvard 1998) deals with research on this topic.
Best
Ellen Winner

>===== Original Message From Michael Tomasello <tomasello at eva.mpg.de> =====
>Can anyone direct me to studies or reports of young children - the
>younger the better (2 years?) - playing with words or other linguistic
>structures "knowingly" in either comprehsnion or production.  I am
>thinking of very simple things like participating with an adult in
>calling a giraffe an elephant (or some other such silliness) and then
>laughing about it together.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Mike Tomasello

Ellen Winner
Graduate Program Director
Department of Psychology
McGuinn Hall 436
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Tel: 617 552-4118
FAX: 617 552-0523
home email: elwinner at attbi.com