Children acquire emotion categories gradually

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Emotional States from Affective Dynamics (2013, background): “…emotional experiences follows a similar, albeit protracted, developmental trajectory with children first making broad, valenced attributions (i.e., overgeneralizing from “happy” and “sad”) that narrow into more specific emotional states over the preschool years (Widen & Russell, 2003, 2008).”
The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review (2012, positive): “These findings with infants are consistent with the emotion perception findings with young children showing that children are unable to recognize emotion in faces until they have learned the associated emotion concept (for reviews, see Russell & Widen 2002; Widen & Russell 2008a; 2008b).”
What’s in a Word? Language Constructs Emotion Perception (2013, background): “Children do not learn the term “disgust” until relatively late in early childhood (mean age of 4.6 years) and accordingly, cannot reliably distinguish disgusted caricatures from other unpleasant faces until later in childhood (Widen & Russell, 2003, 2008a).”