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One basic or two? A rhapsody in blue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Galina V. Paramei
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychology at the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universität Dortmund, 44139 Dortmund, [email protected] www.ifado.de/projekt-06/

Abstract

The controversial status of goluboi as a basic color term is discussed. Fuzzy logic alone cannot reliably attribute basic status to goluboi. Recent linguistic studies support a single basic blue category. Psychophysical data on color-space distances and color naming are currently ambiguous in this regard.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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