Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781575861623)

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 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, 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.

Author: Brent Berlin, Paul Kay
ISBN-10: 1575861623
ISBN-13: 9781575861623
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
Language: English
Published: 05/28/1999
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d