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Asymmetries in the distribution of composite and derived basic color categories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Paul Kay
Paul Kay
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 kay@cogsci.berkeley.edu www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay
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Abstract

PURPLE (RED-and-BLUE) is the most frequently occurring derived (binary) basic color term (BCT), but there is never a named composite BCT meaning RED-or-BLUE. GREEN-or-BLUE is the most frequently named composite color category, but there is never a BCT for the corresponding derived (binary) category CYAN (BLUE-and-GREEN). Why?

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , December 1999 , pp. 957 - 958
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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