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Peer reviewedMacLaury, Robert E. – Language, 1991
Examines the phenomenon of semantic change with regard to color categories in closely related Mayan languages (Tzetal and Tzotzil) associated with radically different social milieux. It is argued that, although a model of individual cognition explains how color categories change at the basic level, a social model accounts for differences between…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Color, Language Research, Language Variation
