colour adjectives

[Andrea Feldman]

It is actually quite early, if it is directly taught to infants.  My son
was able to distinguish basic level colors at 18 months:

(http//childes.psy.cmu.edu/win/english/feldman.zip).

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On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Lorraine McCune <mccune at rci.rutgers.edu>wrote:

> I remember giving this information to my daughter some years ago when her
> daughter was about 18 months old. She promptly taught my granddaughter to
> name the color pink. She reliaby discriminated pink and non-pink. I so not
> remember what happened afterward! A niece learned "yellow" as a first color
> word at about three. For a long time all color questions were answered with
> "yellow"!
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:07 PM, suse <sgrass at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> dear colleagues,
>> i am setting up an experiment in which i want to use children's naming of
>> certain aspects of an object as dependent variable.
>> could someone by any chance tell me at which age children are able to
>> reliably (!) name 3-6 basic colours? i kind-of remember that it is
>> surprisingly late...
>>
>> thanks a lot indeed,
>> Susanne
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