A cross-cultural study of colour grouping: evidence for weak linguistic relativity.

We report a cross-cultural study of colour grouping carried out as a test of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (linguistic relativity theory). Speakers of English, Russian and Setswana—languages that differ in their number of basic colour terms, and in how the blue–green region is categorized—were compared...

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Publicado en:British Journal of Psychology Vol. 88; pp. 493 - 518
Autores principales: Davies, Ian R. L., Corbett, Greville G.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell August 1997
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