COG SCI C101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Color Term, Neurochemistry, Cerebellum
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Kay and maffi 2000 (tuesday, february 2, 2016) Different languages provide different lexical classifications of color. Inaccurate assumption from this is that a lack of lexical distinction would indicate an inability on the part of the speaker to distinguish. Disproven by german ophthalmologist hugo magnus as early as 1880. Berlin and kay " s findings: there are universals in the semantics of color in (probably) all languages, all major color terms found appeared to be based on one or more of 11 focal colors. There exists an apparent evolutionary sequence for the development of color lexicons. Brown precedes purple, pink, orange, and gray. Findings welcomed by psychologists but anthropologists were hesitant on grounds of methodology. Languages tend to assign colors in a color space to a color term as a way to partition the larger perceptual domain. The more salient a color is, the more finely and further it is partitioned.
