The role of mentalizing capacity and ecological language diversity on irony comprehension in bilingual adults.
Diverse bilingual experiences have implications for language comprehension, including pragmatic elements such as verbal irony. Irony comprehension is shaped by an interplay of linguistic, cognitive, and social factors, including individual differences in bilingual experience. We examined the relatio...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 253 - 273 |
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