Hi <br><br>The age at which kids know color words has changed downward over the past hundred years in fairly dramatic fashion. Early in the 20th century children did not know the basic words until they were about 7. Now, most of the 11 basic color words in the standard (e.g. Berlin and Kay) hierarchy are in (many) children's productive vocabularies by about the age of 2 and a half. The introduction of big boxes of crayons, first, and of Sesame Street later may have contributed to this earlier knowledge. You can get productive norms by examining the MacArthur Bates Communicative Inventories, available online. We reported on a study of the use of color terms by children and parents and summarized the literature to that point in a paper in 1998. Hope this helps!<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:07 PM, suse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sgrass@gmx.net">sgrass@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
dear colleagues,<br>
i am setting up an experiment in which i want to use children's naming of certain aspects of an object as dependent variable.<br>
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...<br>
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thanks a lot indeed,<br>
Susanne<br><font color="#888888">
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