盲童心中的颜色概念及其组织

Color Concepts and Their Organization in the Case of Blind Children

以黑、白、红、橙、黄、绿、蓝、紫、棕、灰、粉红11种基本颜色词为材料，运用颜色概念测试和颜色词分类的方法，研究了盲童的颜色概念及其组织。被试是85 名盲校学生。结果表明：（1）盲童的颜色概念测试通过的顺序和明眼儿童的颜色命名的顺序既相似，又存在着差异；（2）盲童的基本颜色词的语义空间中有两个维度：①彩色/非彩色；②实物色/背景色。(3)盲童的颜色概念组织具有主题关联和slot-filler联系的性质，即根据自身的知识和经验，强调事物的功能、语境以及事件之间的联系。

The relation between color cognition and color terms is a popular issue in the domain of language cognition. Until now， three theories have emerged: (1) the general evaluation theory of color terms， which asserts that color terms and color cognition are independent; (2) the hypothesis of linguistic reality， which declares that color terms affect color cognition; and (3) a compromised view， which integrates the previous two views. Almost all earlier studies have been conducted on sighted subjects