Color naming across languages reflects color use

Gibson, E; Futrell, R; Jara-Ettinger, J; Mahowald, K; Bergen, L; Ratnasingam, S; Gibson, M; Piantadosi, ST; Conway, BR

Gibson, E (reprint author), MIT, Dept Brain & Cognit Sci, E25-618, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA.; Conway, BR (reprint author), NEI, Sensorimotor Res Lab, NIH, Bldg 10, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA.; Conway, BR (reprint author), NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2017; 114 (40): 10785

Abstract

What determines how languages categorize colors? We analyzed results of the World Color Survey (WCS) of 110 languages to show that despite gross diffe......

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