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Specifying the Relation between Novel and Known: Input Affects the Acquisition of Novel Color Terms.
Peer reviewedGottfried, Gail M.; Tonks, Stephen J. M. – Child Development, 1996
Four studies investigated how differential input affects preschoolers' abilities to learn novel color words. Found that four- and five-year olds interpreted novel words as shape terms when ostensive information was provided but as color terms when additional information, contrastive or inclusive, was given. Three-year olds generally did not make…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Color, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children
