From the Vault: The Dad Joke
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How Children Understand Sarcasm
Sarcasm is a relatively late developing skill, though. For an adult to catch sarcasm, they depend on two different cues. There's context, and then there's the speaker's a intonation. But the children initially depend more heavily on intonation than on context and recognizing sarcasm.
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