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Color‐Term Salience and Neurophysiology of Color Vision
Author(s) -
Wattenwyl André,
Zollinger Heinrich
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1979.81.2.02a00020
Subject(s) - lexicon , categorization , salience (neuroscience) , linguistic relativity , color term , color vision , german , psychology , linguistics , psycholinguistics , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , philosophy , computer science , cognition , neuroscience
Neurophysiological evidence accumulated in the last twenty years supports Hering€s oppo‐ nent theory of color vision. In addition, the general, cross‐cultural, and universal theoy of color naming for all languages proposed by Berlin and Kay has been corroborated. Hays et al. speculated that color‐term salience might be reduced to a neuroanatomical basis. An evaluation of our color‐naming tests in German, French, English, Hebrew, Japanese, Quechi, and Misquito, and linguistic tests carried out, together with other linguistic data, show clearly that the linguistics ofcolor terms is corroborated by the oppo‐ nenl theuy of color vision. [color lexicon, color naming, categorization of color, opponent color theory, psycholinguistics of color terms, cultural influence on color naming]