Colour and bilingual cognition
(2011) p.241-262- Abstract
- Color perception has been a traditional test-case of Whorf ’s principle of linguistic relativity (Whorf, 1940/1956), which states that speakers of different languages evaluate perceptual contrasts differently, influenced by language-specific partitions of reality. Early empirical studies showed that speakers of Zuni, a language that does not lexically separate the colors ‘orange’ and ‘yellow’ but instead uses a single term to describe them, do not distinguish the two colors as accurately or as frequently as English speakers in a recognition memory task (Brown & Lenneberg, 1954; Lenneberg & Roberts, 1956).
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- Athanasopoulos, Panos LU
- publishing date
- 2011
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- host publication
- Language and bilingual cognition
- editor
- Cook, Vivian and Bassetti, Benedetta
- pages
- 22 pages
- publisher
- Psychology Press
- ISBN
- 9781848729247
- 9781138974258
- 9780203836859
- language
- English
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