General mechanisms of color lexicon acquisition: Insights from comparison of German and Japanese speaking children

Mutsumi Imai; Noburo Saji; Gerlind Große; Cornelia Schulze; Michiko Asano; Henrik Saalbach

General mechanisms of color lexicon acquisition: Insights from comparison of German and Japanese speaking children

Mutsumi Imai, Noburo Saji, Gerlind Große, Cornelia Schulze, Michiko Asano, Henrik Saalbach

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages	3315-3321
Number of pages	7
Publication status	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020 - Virtual, Online Duration: 2020 Jul 29 → 2020 Aug 1

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Conference	42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020
City	Virtual, Online
Period	20/7/29 → 20/8/1

Keywords

color word acquisition
language-general mechanisms
lexical development
role of input
word learning

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science Applications
Human-Computer Interaction
Cognitive Neuroscience

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Imai, M., Saji, N., Große, G., Schulze, C., Asano, M., & Saalbach, H. (2020). General mechanisms of color lexicon acquisition: Insights from comparison of German and Japanese speaking children. 3315-3321. Paper presented at 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020, Virtual, Online.

General mechanisms of color lexicon acquisition: Insights from comparison of German and Japanese speaking children. / Imai, Mutsumi; Saji, Noburo; Große, Gerlind et al.
2020. 3315-3321 Paper presented at 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020, Virtual, Online.

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Imai, M, Saji, N, Große, G, Schulze, C, Asano, M & Saalbach, H 2020, 'General mechanisms of color lexicon acquisition: Insights from comparison of German and Japanese speaking children', Paper presented at 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020, Virtual, Online, 20/7/29 - 20/8/1 pp. 3315-3321.

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