Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution - Brossura

Berlin, Brent; Kay, Paul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1575861623 ISBN 13: 9781575861623

Casa editrice: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1999

Riassunto

The work reported in this monograph was begun in the winter of 1967 in a graduate seminar at Berkeley. Many of the basic data were gathered by members of the seminar and the theoretical framework presented here was initially developed in the context of the seminar discussions.

Much has been discovered since1969, the date of original publication, regarding the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of universal, cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of basic color lexicons, and something, albeit less, can now also be said with some confidence regarding the constraining effects of these language-independent processes of color perception and conceptualization on the direction of evolution of basic color term lexicons.

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The work reported in this monograph was begun in the winter of 1967 in a graduate seminar at Berkeley. Much has been discovered since 1969, the date of original publication, regarding the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of universal, cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of basic color lexicons.

Contenuti:

Preface; Introduction; 1. The data, hypothesis, and general findings; 2. Evolution of basic color terms; 3. The data; 4. Summary of results and some speculations; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Appendix IV; Notes; References Cited; Bibliography; Index.

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• Editore: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1575861623
• ISBN 13: 9781575861623
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 212