Transaction of cognitive‐linguistic abilities and adult input: A case study of the acquisition of colour terms and colour‐based subordinate object categories
- 1 September 1995
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Developmental Psychology
- Vol. 13 (3) , 285-302
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-835x.1995.tb00680.x
Abstract
Data from a comprehensive diary study of early lexical development were analysed to document the acquisition of colour terms and the acquisition of colour‐based subordinate object categories by one child who learned all 11 basic colour terms prior to age 2:0 years. The pattern of child colour‐term production and adult feedback for colour‐term usage was recorded beginning with the first production of a colour term. Information concerning the child's non‐linguistic knowledge of colour categories, comprehension of colour‐terms, syntactic development, acquisition of colour‐based subordinate object categories and adult strategies of introduction of colour terms and colour‐based Subordinate object categories also was available. Findings support a transactional process between this child's cognitive‐linguistic knowledge and adult input.Keywords
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