Communication efficiency of color naming across languages provides a new framework for the evolution of color terms
© 2019 Languages vary in their number of color terms. A widely accepted theory proposes that languages evolve, acquiring color terms in a stereotyped sequence. This theory, by Berlin and Kay (BK), is supported by analyzing best exemplars ("focal colors") of basic color terms in the World C...
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Elsevier BV,
2021-11-30T17:00:17Z.
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