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Dougherty, Janet W. D. – 1976
The distribution of errors in children's responses in four elicitation tests of their color-naming abilities is explored with a view to clarifying states of ignorance. Subjects include 47 Polynesian children ranging in age from 2 to 12 years. The four experiments include a naming task, two identification tasks and a mapping task. Children are…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Children, Cognitive Tests
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Laws, Glynis; And Others – Language Sciences, 1995
Reports on a study of the color terms used in Setswana. The study compared terms used by children with those of adults and those used by people from rural areas with those used by people from urban areas. Results show a move away from traditional Setswana color terms toward the use of borrowed English terms, particularly among the young and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Color, Data Analysis