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Journal Article 1: “Speaking Volumes”

Description: This article drills down into the naming explosion, providing a detailed analysis of the link between vocabulary growth and grammar development between 17 and 42 months of age.

Journal Article 2: Getting Wasted: Discourse Analysis

Description: This article investigates binge drinking among adolescents. However, the samples of discourse that are provided illustrate the use of metaphor, irony, slang, and other nonliteral linguistic forms among adolescents.