Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution - Hardcover

Berlin, Brent; Kay, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520014421 ISBN 13: 9780520014428

Publisher: University of California Press, 1970

Synopsis

The work reported in this monograph was begun in the winter of 1967 in a graduate seminar at Berkeley. Many of the basic data were gathered by members of the seminar and the theoretical framework presented here was initially developed in the context of the seminar discussions. Much has been discovered since 1969, the date of original publication, regarding the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of universal, cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of basic color lexicons, and something, albeit less, can now also be said with some confidence regarding the constraining effects of these language-independent processes of color perception and conceptualization on the direction of evolution of basic color term lexicons.

About this title

Book Description:

The work reported in this monograph was begun in the winter of 1967 in a graduate seminar at Berkeley. Much has been discovered since 1969, the date of original publication, regarding the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of universal, cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of basic color lexicons.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0520014421
• ISBN 13: 9780520014428
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 178