Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and EvolutionExplores the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of color lexicons. |
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Contents
Stimulus materials for color mapping task pocket | 1 |
Composite of foci of basic color terms in twenty lan | 8 |
EVOLUTION OF BASIC COLOR TERMS | 14 |
Typical Stage I basic color lexicon | 17 |
Inferred color categories for Jalé representing Stage I | 24 |
13c Inferred color categories for Ibo representing Stage | 30 |
Semantic relationships of Russian siniy and goluboy | 36 |
THE DATA | 48 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution |
| Authors | Brent Berlin, Paul Kay |
| Contributor | Paul Kay |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0520076354, 9780520076358 |
| Length | 196 pages |
| Subjects | › › Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General |
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