Linguistic and Cultural Variation in Early Color Word Learning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21301809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel H Forbe (0000-0003-1022-4676, University of Oxford, corresponding author), Kim Plunkett (0000-0003-0216-7480, University of Oxford) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28-42 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Child Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-3920 • E-ISSN: 1467-8624 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/cdev.13164 |
| PMID | 30315727 |
| OpenAlex | W2898054870 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 49 |
When and how do infants learn color words? It is generally supposed that color words are learned late and with a great deal of difficulty. By examining infant language surveys in British English and 11 other languages, this study shows that color word learning occurs earlier than has been previously suggested and that the order of acquisition of color words is similar in related languages. This study also demonstrates that frequency and syllabic complexity can be used to predict variability in infant color word learning across languages. In light of recent evidence indicating that color categories have universal biological foundations, these findings suggest that infants’ experience and linguistic exposure drive their shift to culturally and linguistically mediated adult-like understandings of color words
Cognitive psychology · Language acquisition · Linguistics · Teaching method · Variation (astronomy) · Vocabulary development · Word (group theory) · Categorization, perception, and language · Communication · Multisensory perception and integration · Psychology · Spatial Cognition and Navigation
Variability in Early Communicative Development
Color naming reflects optimal partitions of color space
Universals in color naming and memory.
Color categories are not universal
Reflections of the Environment in Memory
BRMS
The New Statistics
Basic color terms
The validity of a parent report instrument of child language at twenty months
Does frequency count? Parental input and the acquisition of vocabulary
Infant vocabulary development assessed with a British communicative development inventory
What is ‘word understanding’ for the parent of a one-year-old? Matching the difficulty of a lexical comprehension task to parental CDI report
Colour term knowledge in two-year-olds
The acquisition of colour terms
Discrepancy between parental reports of infants' receptive vocabulary and infants' behaviour in a preferential looking task
"Focal" color areas and the development of color names
Learning color words involves learning a system of mappings
Color categories
A study in language and cognition
| Citations per year | 0.86 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |