Keyword

basic color terms

Description: Lexical categories for fundamental colors in a language, studied in linguistics and cross-cultural research on color naming.

Primary topic: Categorization, perception, and language (79%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/basic-color-terms

Basic color terms: their universality and evolution. By Brent Berlin and Paul Kay. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. Pp. xi, 178. $8.50.

1973 · George A. Collier · Language · 2,816

Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution.

1971 · W. T. Morrill, Brent Berlin, et al. · Man · 2,173

Coevolution: genes, culture, and human diversity

1992 · Choice Reviews Online · 1,248

The Linguistic Significance of the Meanings of Basic Color Terms

1978 · Paul Kay, Chad K. McDaniel · Language · 923

Color categories are not universal: Replications and new evidence from a stone-age culture.

2000 · Debi Roberson, Ian Davies, et al. · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 645

Color Categories in Thought and Language

1997 · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 462

Basic Color Terms

1971 · Peter Newcomer, James Faris · International Journal of American Linguistics · 451

‘Natural concepts’ in the spatial topological domain—Adpositional meanings in crosslinguistic perspective: an exercise in semantic typology

2003 · Stephen Levinson, Sérgio Meira, et al. · Language · 362

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Why some colors appear more memorable than others: A model combining categories and particulars in color working memory.

2015 · Gi-Yeul Bae, Maria Olkkonen, et al. · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 286

Color Appearance and the Emergence and Evolution of Basic Color Lexicons

1999 · Paul Kay, Luisa Maffi · American Anthropologist · 276

Locating basic colors in the OSA space

1987 · Robert M. Boynton, Conrad X. Olson · Color Research & Application · 267

Yélî Dnye and the Theory of Basic Color Terms

2000 · Stephen C. Levinson · Journal of Linguistic Anthropology · 244

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The meaning of color terms: semantics, culture, and cognition

1990 · ANNA WIERZBICKA · Cognitive Linguistics · 234

Are there nontrivial constraints on colour categorization?

1997 · B. A. C. Saunders, J. van Brakel · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 231

Color naming across languages

1997 · Paul Kay, Brent Berlin, et al. · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 181

Categorical color perception of Japanese observers: Comparison with that of Americans

1987 · Keiji Uchikawa, Robert M. Boynton · Vision Research · 176

Synchronic variability and diachronic change in basic color terms

1975 · Paul Kay · Language in Society · 175

Whorf and His Critics: Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Influences on Color Memory

1979 · John A. Lucy, Richard A. Shweder · American Anthropologist · 164

Categorical sensitivity to color differences

2013 · C. Witzel, K. R. Gegenfurtner · Journal of Vision · 157

The forgotten endangered languages: Lessons on the importance of remembering from Thailand's Ban Khor Sign Language

2004 · ANGELA M. NONAKA · Language in Society · 152

A cross‐cultural study of colour grouping: Evidence for weak linguistic relativity

1997 · Ian R. L. Davies, Greville G. Corbett · British Journal of Psychology · 133

Turkish color terms: tests of Berlin and Kay’s theory of color universals and linguistic relativity

1998 · EMRE ÖZGEN, IAN R. L. DAVIES · Linguistics · 128

The modern Japanese color lexicon

2017 · Ichiro Kuriki, Ryan Lange, et al. · Journal of Vision · 109

Singing the Russian Blues: An Argument for Culturally Basic Color Terms

2004 · Galina V. Paramei · Cross-Cultural Research · 109

The color lexicon of American English

2014 · D. T. Lindsey, A. M. Brown · Journal of Vision · 108

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