Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution - Softcover

Berlin, Brent; Kay, Paul

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9781575861623: Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution
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ISBN 10: 1575861623 ISBN 13: 9781575861623
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1999

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Paul Kay is emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferred to the Department of Linguistics in 1982, and then became a Senior Researcher in artificial intelligence at the International Computer Science Institute. He is best known for his work with Brent Berlin on color, first published in Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution.

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Publisher
Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1575861623
ISBN 13 
9781575861623
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
210
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