New paper by Feurstein, Stoll and colleagues in Open Mind on the role of metaphoricity in child-directed speech.

This papers explores how: Child-directed speech is semantically constrained: Evidence from metaphoricity and concreteness.

Liudmyla Feurstein, Iulia M. Comsa, Reinhard Furrer, Kim Gfeller, Paul Widmer, Srini Narayanan, Sabine Stoll; Child-Directed Speech Is Semantically Constrained: Evidence From Metaphoricity and Concreteness. Open Mind 2026; 10 1413–1431. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/OPMI.a.387