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| | Journal of Vision - The status of primary and secondary colours in colour term acquisition, by Pitchford & Mullen |
 | | Berlin and Kay (1969) proposed children would acquire basic colour terminology in an order analogous to that by which colour terms are added to languages, as both reflected the physiological structure underpinning perceptual-conceptual colour space. |
 | | Accordingly, children should acquire the six primary colour terms (red, green, blue, yellow, fl and white) before the five secondary colour terms (orange, pink, purple, brown and grey). |
 | | Interestingly, our data show brown and grey are colours children least prefer, suggesting colour preference and colour conceptualisation are linked in early childhood: an association which may be mediated by a third factor relating to the perceptual organisation of colour space. |
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