Basic Color Terms Do Not Refer To Basic Colors

A widely held view on color cognition is that it is structured by a set of color fundamentals. Three sorts of evidence may be invoked in favor of such a “foundational” approach to color cognition: physiological, phenomenal and lexical. This paper focuses on the lexical evidence, which draws from a p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yasmina Jraissati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rosenberg & Sellier 2010-03-01
Series:Rivista di Estetica
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/estetica/1797