Abstract
BRODZINSKY, DAvm M. Children's Comprehension and Appreciation of Verbal Jokes in Relation to Conceptual Tempo. CmLD DEVELOPMENT, 1977 48, 960-967. Reflective, impulsive, fast-accurate, and slow-inaccurate fourth-grade children were presented with tape-recorded jokes containing different types of linguistic ambiguity. Humor measures employed were children's spontaneous and prompted comprehension of the jokes as well as mirth and funniness ratings. Results indicated that while reflective and fast-accurate children generally displayed the greatest spontaneous comprehension of the humor, it was the impulsive and slow-inaccurate children who showed the highest level of mirth. Further, only the reflective children showed differential mirth as a function of joke complexity. Finally, both humor comprehension and appreciation varied in relation to the type of linguistic ambiguity underlying the joke.
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