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Direct linkClark, Eve V. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
In learning the meaning of a new term, children need to fix its reference, learn its conventional meaning, and discover the meanings with which it contrasts. To do this, children must attend to adult speakers--the experts--and to their patterns of use. In the domain of color, children need to identify color terms as such, fix the reference of each…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Adults, Children, Color
