Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution

by Brent Berlin, Paul Kay

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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Linguistics, Language, Psychology, Art, Anthropology, Science

210 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 1969

Reviews

[Elise Renckens]

Dit blijft zo fascinerend!