conclusions the findings of this study indicate that older children are more proficient in comprehension of color words compared to younger children, and girls are more proficient than boys. the two easiest and two most difficult color words for children to comprehend within the 3 age groups were “black” and “red” and “phosphoric-green” and “turquoise-blue,” respectively. there was a positive r...

Two experiments were conducted to investigate whether color representations are routinely activated when color words are processed. Congruency effects of colors and color words were observed in both directions. Lexical decisions on color words were faster when preceding colors matched the color named by the word. Color-discrimination responses were slowed down when preceding color words mismatc...

The mastery of color words is a highlighted point in Eileen Chang’s novels, from which we can catch glimpse language technique. Chang's Novels are like painting with instead monotonously depicting life. She expresses her exquisite and unique perception life through the deconstruction cultural meanings words. blended different colors clothes novel’s characters scenes, using rhetorical devices su...

The present study investigated how children learn the meanings of basic color words and are immersed into the language-specific system of the color lexicon. The study examined how children discover the boundaries of color names by having 3-, 4-, and 5year-old children produce names for 93 color patches. We found that even 3-year-olds children can map color words to its typical referents. At the...

This study experimentally tested the relationship between children's lexicon size and their ability to learn new words within the domain of color. We manipulated the size of 25 20-month-olds' color lexicons by training them with two, four, or six different color words over the course of eight training sessions. We subsequently tested children's ability to extend new color words to new instances...