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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
PDF pending restorationRosch, Eleanor; And Others – 1975
The categorizations which humans make of the concrete world are not arbitrary but highly determined. In taxonomies of concrete objects, there is one level of abstraction at which the most basic category cuts are made. Basic categories are those which carry the most information, possess the highest category cue validity, and are, thus, the most…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Child Language, Classification, Cognitive Processes
