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Brent Berlin and Paul Kay, Basic color terms: their universality and evolution. Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1969. Pp. xi + 178.

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W. R. Merrifield
W. R. Merrifield
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Summer Institute of Linguistics, Mitla, Oaxaca, México
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , September 1971 , pp. 259 - 268
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