Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 0 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 3 |
Descriptor
| Color | 6 |
| Visual Perception | 4 |
| Linguistic Theory | 3 |
| Vocabulary | 3 |
| Language Research | 2 |
| Language Universals | 2 |
| Linguistics | 2 |
| Perception | 2 |
| Semantics | 2 |
| Visual Stimuli | 2 |
| Anthropological Linguistics | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| Cognition | 2 |
| Brain and Language | 1 |
| Language | 1 |
Author
| Kay, Paul | 6 |
| McDaniel, Chad K. | 2 |
| Regier, Terry | 2 |
| Berlin, Brent | 1 |
| Gilbert, Aubrey L. | 1 |
| Ivry, Richard B. | 1 |
| Webster, Michael A. | 1 |
Publication Type
| Reports - Research | 4 |
| Journal Articles | 3 |
| Books | 1 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
| Papua New Guinea | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Direct linkWebster, Michael A.; Kay, Paul – Cognition, 2012
We examined categorical effects in color appearance in two tasks, which in part differed in the extent to which color naming was explicitly required for the response. In one, we measured the effects of color differences on perceptual grouping for hues that spanned the blue-green boundary, to test whether chromatic differences across the boundary…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Tests, Thinking Skills, Color
Gilbert, Aubrey L.; Regier, Terry; Kay, Paul; Ivry, Richard B. – Brain and Language, 2008
Recent work has shown that Whorf effects of language on color discrimination are stronger in the right visual field than in the left. Here we show that this phenomenon is not limited to color: The perception of animal figures (cats and dogs) was more strongly affected by linguistic categories for stimuli presented to the right visual field than…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Visual Perception, Memory, Color
Kay, Paul; Regier, Terry – Cognition, 2007
Proponents of a self-identified "relativist" view of cross-language color naming have confounded two questions: (1) Is color naming largely subject to local linguistic convention? and (2) Are cross-language color naming differences reflected in comparable differences in color cognition by their speakers? The "relativist"…
Descriptors: Color, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Schemata (Cognition)
Color Categories as Fuzzy Sets. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory. No. 44.
Download full textKay, Paul; McDaniel, Chad K. – 1975
Since Berlin and Kay's proposal in 1969 of two universals concerning the meanings of basic color words, three kinds of information have become available to help in understanding the encoding sequence, that is, the temporal order in which the basic color categories are accorded lexical status. McDaniel (1972, 1974, forthcoming) demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Anthropology, Classification, Color
Berlin, Brent; Kay, Paul – 1999
Ethnoscience studies, and studies of color vocabulary in particular, have firmly established that to understand the full range of meaning of a word in any language, each new language must be approached on its own terms, without a priori theories of semantic universals. It has been shown that color words in fact encode a great deal of…
Descriptors: Color, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Research, Language Typology
Peer reviewedKay, Paul; McDaniel, Chad K. – Language, 1978
Recent empirical research into the meaning of words for color provides evidence that contradicts two widely held beliefs in linguistics and the philosophy of language. This paper presents a summary of this evidence, uses it as a basis to construct a general model of basic color-term semantics, and explores the implications of this model for…
Descriptors: Color, Language Universals, Lexicology, Linguistic Theory
