Basic Color Terms,9781575861623

Basic Color Terms

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ISBN13: 9781575861623
ISBN10: 1575861623
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-06-01
Publisher(s): Stanford Univ Center for the Study
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION v(2)
PREFACE vii
INTRODUCTION 1(1)
1 THE DATA, HYPOTHESIS, AND GENERAL FINDINGS
1(13)
1.1 Procedure
5(1)
1.2 Defining the concept of basic color term
5(2)
1.3 Mapping basic color terms
7(1)
1.4 Universality of basic color terms
7(3)
1.5 Inter-language versus inter-informant variability
10(3)
1.6 Category foci versus category boundaries
13(1)
2 EVOLUTION OF BASIC COLOR TERMS
14(31)
2.1 Basic color lexicon and technological/cultural complexity
16(1)
2.2 The seven stages in the evolution of basic color terms
17(6)
2.3 Some typical systems
23(13)
2.3.1 Stage I systems
23(2)
2.3.2 Stage II systems
25(3)
2.3.3 Stage III systems
28(3)
2.3.4 Stage IV systems
31(2)
2.3.5 Stage V systems
33(1)
2.3.6 Stage VI systems
34(1)
2.3.7 Stage VII systems
35(1)
2.4 Internal reconstruction of basic color terms
36(5)
2.5 Problematical cases
41(4)
3 THE DATA
45(59)
3.1 Stage I systems
46(6)
3.2 Stage II systems
52(11)
3.3 Stage III systems
63(10)
3.4 Stage IV systems
73(10)
3.5 Stage V systems
83(4)
3.6 Stage VI systems
87(3)
3.7 Stage VII systems
90(14)
4 SUMMARY OF RESULTS AND SOME SPECULATIONS
104(9)
APPENDIX I. Terms and mappings for twenty experimentally investigated languages 113(21)
APPENDIX II. The growth of color vocabulary: one hundred years of theory 134(18)
APPENDIX III. Alphabetical list of languages treated, indicating stage, number of terms, and source 152(5)
APPENDIX IV. Standard authorities for the orthographies of cited languages 157(2)
NOTES 159(5)
REFERENCES CITED 164(9)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COLOR CATEGORIZATION RESEARCH 1970-1990 BY LUISA MAFFI 173(18)
INDEX 191
Tables
I The twenty-two actually occurring types of basic color lexicon
3
II Comparison of mean distances in the location of five color foci among four languages and among ten speakers of one language
12
III Distribution of ninety-eight basic color lexicons among the twenty-two theoretically possible types, with indication of evolutionary stage
21

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