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Direct linkPitchford, Nicola J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
Compared with object word learning, young children typically find learning color terms to be a difficult linguistic task. In this reflections article, I consider two questions that are fundamental to investigations into the developmental acquisition of color terms. First, I consider what constrains color term acquisition and how stable these…
Descriptors: Young Children, Color, Visual Learning, Word Recognition
