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ERIC Number: EJ039057
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1971
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"Focal" Color Areas and the Development of Color Names
Heider, Eleanor Rosch
Developmental Psychology, 4, 3, 447-455, May 71
Three experiments using 3- and 4-year-olds as subjects tested the hypothesis that focal colors are more salient than nonfocal colors for young children and are the areas to which color names initially become attached. (NH)
Descriptors: Color, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Universals, Preschool Children, Visual Perception
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