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Salience Counts: A Domain Analysis of English Color Terms
Author(s) -
Smith J. Jerome,
Furbee Louanna,
Maynard Kelly,
Quick Sarah,
Ross Larry
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of linguistic anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.463
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1548-1395
pISSN - 1055-1360
DOI - 10.1525/jlin.1995.5.2.203
Subject(s) - salience (neuroscience) , color term , set (abstract data type) , psychology , domain (mathematical analysis) , computer science , artificial intelligence , linguistics , natural language processing , cognitive psychology , mathematics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , programming language
Independent models of basic and nonbasic color terms are combined to explore the domain as a whole. We analyze an elicited set of English color terms, ranked by a combined frequency and order of mention salience index. We find that (1) basic color terms emerge intact as a distinctive category, and (2) the remaining types of terms array themselves in an extended pattern of distribution with respect to the domain's broader scheme of lexical, organizational, semantic, and salience dimensions.