Idiom comprehension in French-speaking children and adolescents with Williams’ syndrome

Idiom comprehension in French-speaking children and adolescents with Williams’ syndrome « COMD News:

"The main results can be summarized as follows: (1) people with WS have difficulties to understand idioms; (2) WS group seems to perform partly as typically developing children for the acquisition of metapragmatic knowledge of linguistic convention: there is a progressive increase in metapragmatic knowledge of linguistic convention as age increased. Our results indicate a delay of acquisition in idiom comprehension in Williams’ syndrome."