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how culture might constrain color categories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 September 2005
Abstract
if language is crucial to the development of shared colour categories, how might cultural constraints influence the development of divergent category sets? we propose that communities arrive at different sets of categories because the tendency to group by perceptual similarity interacts with environmental factors (differential access to dying and printing technologies), to make different systems optimal for communication in different situations.
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- 2005 cambridge university press
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