@misc{10481/79891,
year = {2022},
month = {12},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/79891},
abstract = {This study aims to investigate children's color naming levels and color name derivation tendencies.
Also, this study investigated whether the color naming levels of the children differed according to
gender and age. The study group consists of 431 preschool and first-grade children (48–84-monthold).
This research was carried out as a descriptive survey study. The data were collected through a
questionnaire form prepared by the researchers. The Chi-Square test technique and document
analyses were used to analyze the data. The results show that the most recognized colors by children
are red, yellow, and blue, the primary colors, respectively. On the other hand, children have difficulty
naming colors: lilac, brown, navy blue, and gray. According to the results, primary and warm colors
were named more accurately than the other hues. Moreover, children had difficulties naming the
lightness and darkness levels of the colors. Name derivations for colors by 48-84-month-old children
were collected under ten different themes. According to the results, the prominent themes in
children's derivation of color names are light (e.g. light yellow), dark (e.g., dark green), closed (e.g.,
closed blue), reinforcers and quantifiers (e.g., very closed green), analogy to object and being, madeup
color names, vibrant color names uncertain color names and color names in the literature.
Document analyses indicates that children's main difficulty with colors is nomenclature.},
publisher = {Universidad de Granada},
keywords = {Early childhood},
keywords = {Color},
keywords = {Color perception},
keywords = {Color naming},
keywords = {Derivation},
title = {‘Sheep color, iron color, my room's color..’ How do 48-84 months-old children name and derivative colors?},
doi = {10.47750/jett.2022.13.05.040},
author = {Özcan, Aysel Ferah and Tunçeli, Hilal Ílknur and Senöz, Eslem Gözde},
}