{"pk":26442,"title":"Modeling developmental and linguistic relativity effects in color term acquisition","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We model two patterns related to the acquisition of color termsin Russian and English: children produce overextension errorsfor some colors but not others, and language-specific distinc-tions affect color discrimination in a non-linguistic task. Botheffects, as well as a reasonable convergence with adult linguis-tic behavior, are shown by a Self-Organizing Map trained onnaturalistic input. We investigate the effect of different waysof representing colors, i.e., as perceptual features or in terms ofthe cognitive biases on categorization extracted from crosslin-guistic color naming data. We also consider the influence ofcolor term frequency. Our results suggest effects of all three ofterm frequency, cognitive biases, and perceptual features.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"color terms"},{"word":"Language Acquisition"},{"word":"linguistic rela-tivity"},{"word":"Typological Prevalence Hypothesis"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/30g8x1jq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Barend","middle_name":"","last_name":"Beekhuizen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto","department":""},{"first_name":"Suzanne","middle_name":"","last_name":"Stevenson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26442/galley/16078/download/"}]}