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Science ≠ imperialism: There are nontrivial constraints on color naming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Paul Kay  and
Brent Berlin
Paul Kay
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 kay@cogsci.berkeley.edu
Brent Berlin
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 obberlin@sherlock.dac.uga.edu
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Abstract

Saunders & van Brakel's claim that Berlin and Kay (1969) assumed a language/vision correlation in the area of color categorization and disguised this assumption as a finding is shown to be false. The methodology of the World Color Survey, now nearing completion, is discussed and the possibility of an additional language/vision correlation in color categorization is suggested.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 196 - 201
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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