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Dowman, Mike – Cognitive Science, 2007
An expression-induction model was used to simulate the evolution of basic color terms to test Berlin and Kay's (1969) hypothesis that the typological patterns observed in basic color term systems are produced by a process of cultural evolution under the influence of biases resulting from the special properties of universal focal colors. Ten agents…
Descriptors: Color, Language Research, Simulation, Language Patterns

Miller, Jay – Anthropological Linguistics, 1975
This article discusses the species designation and taxonomies of Delaware and Algonkian and presents eight classifications of taxa by form, habitat, color, movement, sound, use, relationship, and appearance. Relevant research is also reviewed. (CLK)
Descriptors: Acoustics, American Indian Languages, Classification, Color
Berlin, Brent – 1969
Criticism has been directed at a growing body of literature broadly referred to as ethnoscience, ethnosemantics, folk science, ethnographic semantics, and cognitive anthropology. Criticisms concern methodological and analytic aspects of ethnoscientific procedure, and the directions of ethnosemantic research from a theoretical point of view. The…
Descriptors: African Languages, Anthropology, Classification, Color
Dyer, Frederick N. – 1970
English-speaking monolinguals named colors as quickly as possible when the color stimuli were color names written either in English or a number of other languages. Color naming was found to be slowest for English words and increased in speed as the foreign color names become less similar to their English equivalents. In a second experiment,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Association (Psychology), Bilingualism, Color