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Color, reference, and expertise in language acquisition (2006)

In the article, Eve Clark discusses her research on a child's understanding of a new word, specifically colors. One major part to this is joint attention. When a child is able to establish joint attention, they can be sure that both themselves and the adult they are talking to are focusing on the same object. The key to this is that a child can ask the adult questions and learn about the item in focus. Clark discovered that children find difficulty in learning and understanding the meaning of new colors. This is because colors have many different shades and hues, and sometimes people refer to the same color differently. Eve Clark emphasized the importance of joint attention when it comes to learning colors because the child and the other person should consider the color to be the same.