TY - GEN
T1 - Symbol grounding and system construction in the color lexicon
AU - Imai, Mutsumi
AU - Hidaka, Shohei
AU - Saji, Noburo
AU - Ohba, Masato
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Yukie Ujihara, Kanako Yasufuku, Sakiko Hayashida for data collection. This research was supported by MEXT KAKENHI to Imai (Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research #16K13224)
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This research investigated the acquisition process of the color lexicon, specifically how color words are initially grounded and develop into the lexical system possessed by the adults in the ambient language. We conducted a longitudinal study in which Japanese-learning 2-year-olds were tested every month on their understanding of basic words denoting 8 chromatic colors, continuing until they were able to map these words onto their referents consistently. The results strongly endorse the view that acquisition of the color lexicon should be characterized as a process of system construction, through which children reorganize prelinguistic color categories onto the linguistic categories of the ambient language, thereby representations of individual words are continuously refined along with the refinement of the representation of the system as a whole.
AB - This research investigated the acquisition process of the color lexicon, specifically how color words are initially grounded and develop into the lexical system possessed by the adults in the ambient language. We conducted a longitudinal study in which Japanese-learning 2-year-olds were tested every month on their understanding of basic words denoting 8 chromatic colors, continuing until they were able to map these words onto their referents consistently. The results strongly endorse the view that acquisition of the color lexicon should be characterized as a process of system construction, through which children reorganize prelinguistic color categories onto the linguistic categories of the ambient language, thereby representations of individual words are continuously refined along with the refinement of the representation of the system as a whole.
KW - Bayesian model
KW - color word learning
KW - lexical acquisition
KW - symbol grounding
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85139563959
T3 - Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018
SP - 1853
EP - 1858
BT - Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
T2 - 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Changing Minds, CogSci 2018
Y2 - 25 July 2018 through 28 July 2018
ER -