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    "pk": 25844,
    "title": "Signatures of Domain-General Categorization Mechanisms\nin ColorWord Learning",
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    "abstract": "Learning color words is a difficult problem for young children.\nBecause color is abstract, this difficulty has been attributed\nto challenges in integrating over heterogeneous objects\nto discover color as a dimension of reference. On this\naccount, learning that color words refer to the color dimension\nis slow, but subsequently mapping these words to particular\nshades is fast. Recent work suggests an alternative: Children\nmay rapidly identify color as a referential dimension, but only\ngradually discover the precise boundaries of each color word.\nThis alternative proposal predicts that the learning mechanisms\nunderlying the acquisition of color words should parallel those\nunderlying the acquisition of concrete object categories. We\ntest this prediction, finding that children’s performance in a\ncolor naming task is modulated by three factors that have previously\nbeen studied in category learning: input frequency, category\nsize, and perceptual salience. Because it allows for precise\npsychophysical measurement of category properties, color\npresents a unique case study for investigating language acquisition\nand categorization more broadly.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Language Acquisition"
        },
        {
            "word": "word learning"
        },
        {
            "word": "Categorization"
        },
        {
            "word": "Cognitive Development"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0tf3r6kh",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Daniel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Yurovsky",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Katie",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wagner",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California,\nSan Diego",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "David",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Barner",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California,\nSan Diego",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "C",
            "last_name": "Frank",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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