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Learning to tell jokes: a case study of metalinguistic abilities*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Dianne Horgan
Dianne Horgan
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Illinois State University
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Journal of Child Language , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , February 1981 , pp. 217 - 224
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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A version of this paper, was presented at the Second International Conference on Humor, Los Angeles, 1979. Author's address: Department of Psychology, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61761, U.S.A.

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