The relation between children's conceptual functioning with color and color term acquisition

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 301-321

  Kowalski, Kurt ^a   Zimiles, Herbert ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Color; Concepts; Language acquisition; Properties

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOR PERCEPTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33746015355     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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