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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
Peer reviewedvon Wattenwyl, Andre; Zollinger, Heinrich – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1978
Studies the link between the theory of the neurophysiology of color perception and Berlin and Kay's ideas on color linguistics and color perception. Two interpretations of studies of color terminology are shown, one supporting and one disproving the Whorf Thesis. (NCR)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Anthropological Linguistics, Color, Language Usage
