{"pk":26850,"title":"Early Colour Word Learning in British Infants","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Colour word learning has traditionally been viewed as a diffi-cult task. Previous accounts have focussed on infants’ ability toshow an adult-like understanding of colour terms. Here we ex-amine whether infants understand colour terms at a basic level,using two different methods: first, evidence from parental re-ports that British infants can comprehend colour terms early,second from experimental data using eye-tracking. These find-ing show that colour word learning is a process that beginsmuch earlier than previously thought, and develops slowly asinfants learn where the boundaries of each term are located.Due to their abstract properties, colour words present a uniqueopportunity to assess category learning in infants, as well asthe mechanisms that control word learning in general.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Word learning; language acquisition; colour"}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0f96q3p9","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Samuel","middle_name":"H.","last_name":"Forbes","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Oxford","department":""},{"first_name":"Kim","middle_name":"","last_name":"Plunkett","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Oxford","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26850/galley/16486/download/"}]}