Discussion
At which age can children engage in word play and like jokes and riddles that involve a play on words ?
Answer: D
The key's answer is seven years.
Jokes and riddles based on a play on words require metalinguistic awareness: the child must notice that a word can have two meanings or that two words sound alike, and enjoy the switch between them. This awareness develops in middle childhood, and children of around seven, in the early school years, typically begin to enjoy puns, riddles and word-play jokes.
A one-year-old is just beginning to speak, and a three-year-old is still building vocabulary and grammar and enjoys simpler, mainly physical humour. By twelve, children have long been enjoying word play, so twelve is not the age at which it begins.
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