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Basic Color Terms

Basic Color Terms is a linguistic construct in the study of color categorization that refers to a set of fundamental, monolexemic color words in a language which are not subordinate to or derived from other color terms and which native speakers use spontaneously and consistently to describe basic color categories.

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Basic color terms: their universality and evolution. By Brent Berlin and Paul Kay. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. Pp. xi, 178. $8.50.

George A. Collier · Language · 1973 · 2.8K citations

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Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution.

W. T. Morrill, Brent Berlin, Paul Kay · Man · 1971 · 2.2K citations

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The linguistic significance of the meanings of basic color terms

Paul Kay, Chad K. McDaniel · Language · 1978 · 796 citations · Full text

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Color categories are not universal: Replications and new evidence from a stone-age culture.

Debi Roberson, Ian Davies, Jules Davidoff · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 2000 · 619 citations

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Basic Color Terms: their Universality and Evolution

1969 · 415 citations

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Authors

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  1. ID
    Ian Davies

    University of Surrey, United Kingdom

    22 publications · 1.5K citations

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    Greville G. Corbett

    University of Surrey, United Kingdom

    19 publications · 740 citations

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  3. PK
    Paul Kay

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    6 publications · 4K citations

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  4. GV
    Galina V. Paramei

    Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 253 citations

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  5. DM
    Dimitris Mylonas

    University College London, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 169 citations

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Institutions

151

  1. University of Surrey

    Guildford, United Kingdom

    16 h-index

    63 publications

    2.5K citations

  2. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    201 citations

  3. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    1.2K citations

  4. Liverpool Hope University

    Liverpool, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    125 citations

  5. Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, Spain

    4 h-index

    12 publications

    304 citations

  6. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    336 citations

  7. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    462 citations

  8. Goldsmiths University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    980 citations

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  1. Color Research & Application

    14 publications · 692 citations

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  2. American Anthropologist

    8 publications · 772 citations

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  3. Linguistics

    5 publications · 307 citations

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  4. Language

    5 publications · 3.9K citations

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  5. Journal of Vision

    5 publications · 419 citations

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