Some Methodological Considerations Regarding Cross-Language Research on Color Naming1
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چکیده
The research tradition stemming from the cross-language study of color terms of Berlin and Kay (1969) and most recently embodied in Kay, Berlin, Maffi and Merrifield (1997) and Kay and Maffi (in press) has been criticized on the grounds (1) that many languages contain words which express both color and non-color properties, (2) that in many languages words which express color properties do not form a coherent morpho-syntactic class, and (3) that the purported findings of this tradition of research are artifacts of a biased method of investigation. Each of these charges is answered.
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