colour adjectives
suse
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Sun Nov 6 18:10:37 UTC 2011
thanks a lot to everybody for all the extremely informative comments and
stories and the helpful and insightful information! i appreciate it a lot.
regards,
Suse
Am 04-11-11 22:07, schrieb Deborah Gibson:
> To add an anecdote to this discussion, when he was about 3 years old
> my nonverbal son with autism tried to elicit colour names, using his
> usual request for names method of triadic joint attention [pointing
> and eye contact], and an interrogative grunt. We misunderstood him
> and only supplied object names, to his frustration. He gathered
> together several blocks, one of which had a red side, pointing to them
> all in turn. When I said 'red block' he asked for many repetitions,
> then gathered all his red toys together, and made a circling gesture
> to include them all, using his request for information grunt. He
> reacted with astonishment when I labelled one of them 'orange', a word
> he'd only known to mean the fruit. He acquired 'red' in comprehension
> that day, and quickly added 'yellow' and 'green'. By asking for
> colour names insistently, within two weeks he had acquired 10 colour
> words and the generic 'colour'.
>
> He initially inquired about primary colour names, then went into hue
> and shade territories of 'pinkish orange' and 'pale blue'. This line
> of enquiry rapidly revealed parental dialectal and perceptual
> differences between 'green' and 'blue', and in neutrals such as
> 'beige', 'tan', and 'fawn' etc. His acquisition of colour words
> occurred when he had 225 words in his receptive lexicon, and 9
> protowords and gestures.
>
> Deborah Gibson
> CIRCA (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism)
> The University of British Columbia
>
>
> On 2011-11-04, at 12:49 PM, Susan Gelman wrote:
>
>> Here is an old-ish paper that we did on color term knowledge in U.S.
>> kids. Interestingly, we found that kids with preschool experience
>> did better than those without:
>>
>> Shatz, M., Behrend, D., Gelman, S. A., & Ebeling, K. S. (1996).
>> Colour term knowledge in two-year-olds: Evidence for early
>> competence. Journal of Child Language, 23, 177-199.
>>
>>
>> On Nov 4, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Sonal Chitnis wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for coming up with nice topic and the discussion about
>>> acquisition of naming of colours.
>>> In India, we normally see children of age 3 yrs and beyond start
>>> comprehending more than 2 basic colours and/ sorting colours as
>>> well. In my opinion may be because of competitive world and
>>> education system, many parents try introducing colour and shape
>>> concept by 2yrs of age. I have seen my niece naming and sorting
>>> triangle, circle and square with their respective colours ( blue,
>>> red, green) in which they were painted when she was just two and
>>> half and in an interview at the time of preschool/ KG admission was
>>> asked to name. Many reputed schools now a days conduct an informal
>>> parent child interview at the time of admission and selection
>>> is based on the performance.
>>> Teaching/ introducing color-shape concept at the early
>>> childhood may vary in education and attitude of parents, and
>>> socioeconomic status,etc. I observed that many mothers mostly from
>>> urban areas would like to see the child to be brilliant / a prodigy
>>> and they try to start introducing alphabet, color, shapes, action
>>> words and rhymes at very early age and if the child is not learning
>>> it faster or having difficulty they rush to pediatrician and SLP's!
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Lorraine McCune
>>> <mccune at rci.rutgers.edu <mailto: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
>>> <mailto: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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>> Susan A. Gelman
>> Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology
>> 530 Church St.
>> University of Michigan
>> Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043
>>
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