Color categorization across cultures

Davidoff, Jules

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“…In our current work, we identified the BCTs of three Spanish dialects—Castilian, Uruguayan, and Mexican—and delimited the space of their corresponding BCCs. This identification and delimitation enabled us to, first, detect any possible significant change in number and characteristics of the Castilian BCTs-BCCs regarding our previous work (Lillo et al, 2007 ), second, to compare BCCs-BCTs between the aforementioned dialects, and, third, to interpret our data in reference to the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (LRH) (Saunders and van Brakel, 1997 ; Roberson et al, 2000 ; Davidoff, 2015 ) and the model of Universals and Evolution (UE) (Berlin and Kay, 1969 ; Kay and Maffi, 1999 ; Kay et al, 2009 ).…”

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“…According to LRH (Saunders and van Brakel, 1997 ; Davidoff et al, 1999 ; Roberson et al, 2000 ; Davidoff, 2015 ), categorical segmentation of color space arises from the socio-cultural need to discuss meaningful properties of object surfaces. Consequently, in the first stage of the evolution of BCTs, some terms could only be used for the naming of some important items, and, considering the partial nature of color constancy (McCann et al, 2014 ; Allred and Olkkonen, 2015 ), these terms could be related to the small subset of color experiences produced by such items in different illumination backgrounds.…”

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Basic Color Terms (BCTs) and Categories (BCCs) in Three Dialects of the Spanish Language: Interaction Between Cultural and Universal Factors

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Two experiments were performed to identify and compare the Basic Color Terms (BCTs) and the Basic Color Categories (BCCs) included in three dialects (Castilian, Mexican, and Uruguayan) of the Spanish language. Monolexemic Elicited lists were used in the first experiment to identify the BCTs of each dialect. Eleven BCTs appeared for the Spanish and the Mexican, and twelve did so for the Uruguayan. The six primary BCTs (rojo “red,” verde “green,” amarillo “yellow,” azul “blue,” negro “black,” and blanco “white”) appeared in the three dialects. This occurred for only three derived BCTs (gris “gray,” naranja “orange,” and rosa “pink”) but not for the other five derived BCTs (celeste “sky blue,” marrón “brown,” café “brown,” morado “purple,” and violeta “purple”). Color transitions were used in the second experiment for two different tasks. Extremes naming task was used to determine the relation between two different dialects' BCTs: equality, equivalence or difference. The results provided the first evidence for marrón “brown” and café “brown” being equivalent terms for the same BCC (brown in English) as is the case of morado “purple” and violeta “purple.” Uruguayan celeste “sky blue” had no equivalent BCT in the other two dialects. Boundary delimitation task required the selection of the color in the boundary between two categories. The task was used to reasonably estimate the volume occupied by each BCC in the color space considering its chromatic area and lightness range. Excluding sky blue (celeste “sky blue”) and blue (azul “blue”), the other BCCs color volumes were similar across the three dialects. Uruguayan sky blue and blue volumes conjointly occupied the portion of the color space corresponding to the Castilian and Mexican blue BCC. The fact that the BCT celeste “sky blue” only appeared in Uruguayan very probably derived from specific cultural factors (the use of the color in the flags and the arrival of an important number of Italian immigrants). Nevertheless, these cultural factors seem to nurture from a perceptive structuring of the color space, which nature is universal, as the boundaries of this category can be delimited from the responses of Spanish and Mexican participants.

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Basic Color Terms (BCTs) and Categories (BCCs) in Three Dialects of the Spanish Language: Interaction Between Cultural and Universal Factors

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“…If instructions were set to emphasize comparisons between two stimuli from the same color category, the observers did not find that (B) was more like (A) or (C). If the instructions were set so that the observer had to look at all three colors, then the odd-one-out chosen was the one from a different categorya result mostly replicated in other cross-lingual comparisons (see [5]). The observers were not told to name the colors to decide on their answers, though of course they could have.…”

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“…Brown and Lenneberg [4] found that the lack of terms in the Zuni language to distinguish between orange and yellow did not affect the ability to distinguish between colors in those regions. More recently, it has been shown (see [5]) that color categories do not derive from observers becoming more sensitive to colors at the boundary between two color terms. Thresholds and boundaries were comparatively assessed in English and Korean speakers.…”

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Davidoff

2020

Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology

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Basic color terms in Thai

Panitanang

Phuangsuwan

Ikeda

2022

Color Research & Application

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This psycholinguistic study explored whether the inventory of color names and, in particular, basic color terms (BCTs) in the Thai language has changed since the seminal study of Berlin and Kay (1969), who reported 10 BCTs in Thai. We collected color‐naming data from 161 Thai native speakers from across Thailand. The speakers were requested to name each of the 330 Munsell color chips, similar to those employed in the World Color Survey, using monolexemic color terms. Mean number of color terms offered per speaker was 19.2 ± 5.2. We found that 12 color terms were offered by ≥80% of the speakers. The BCT inventory exceeded the BCTs reported by Berlin and Kay, by nam‐ngoen “dark blue”, fa “sky/light blue”, and thao “gray”; furthermore, som “orange” appears to have supplanted saet “orange trumpet”. We also found that three non‐BCTs, with Thai‐specific referents, were offered frequently: khi‐ma “horse feces” (75%), lueat‐mu “pig blood” (68%), and ban‐yen “four o'clock flower/magenta” (50%). Further scrutiny of color term object referents prompts that most Thai non‐BCTs refer to flora (31.72%) and inanimate nature (17.54%).

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Color categorization across cultures

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Basic Color Terms (BCTs) and Categories (BCCs) in Three Dialects of the Spanish Language: Interaction Between Cultural and Universal Factors

Basic Color Terms (BCTs) and Categories (BCCs) in Three Dialects of the Spanish Language: Interaction Between Cultural and Universal Factors

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Basic color terms in Thai

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