TY - CONF
T1 - General mechanisms of color lexicon acquisition
T2 - 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020
AU - Imai, Mutsumi
AU - Saji, Noburo
AU - Große, Gerlind
AU - Schulze, Cornelia
AU - Asano, Michiko
AU - Saalbach, Henrik
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by MEXT KAKENHI to Imai (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A) #16H01928), by JSPS KAKENHI to Imai (Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research #16K13224) and Saji (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists #18K12382).
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This research investigated how German-speaking children learn color words, both in terms of centroid mappings and boundary delineation, and how they construct the color lexicon as a connected system. The results were compared to those of Japanese children to draw insights on general mechanisms that underlie the acquisition of words in the color lexicon. For both languages, input frequency and category size contributed to the ease of learning. In contrast, in both language groups, naming (in)consistency in adults predicted the adult-like boundary delineation.
AB - This research investigated how German-speaking children learn color words, both in terms of centroid mappings and boundary delineation, and how they construct the color lexicon as a connected system. The results were compared to those of Japanese children to draw insights on general mechanisms that underlie the acquisition of words in the color lexicon. For both languages, input frequency and category size contributed to the ease of learning. In contrast, in both language groups, naming (in)consistency in adults predicted the adult-like boundary delineation.
KW - color word acquisition
KW - language-general mechanisms
KW - lexical development
KW - role of input
KW - word learning
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AN - SCOPUS:85135029219
SP - 3315
EP - 3321
Y2 - 29 July 2020 through 1 August 2020
ER -