Colourful language and colour categories
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چکیده
We investigate whether the universal character of colour categories can be explained as the result of a category acquisition process under influence of linguistic communication. A brief overview is presented of the different positions in explaining the mechanisms of colour category acquisition (or perceptual categories in general). We introduce a computational model to study the acquisition of colour categories with and without linguistic interactions. We present preliminary results, which are compared with recent results from the World Color Survey. We argue that combining biases from colour perception, perceptual categorisation and linguistic communication provides an alternative explanation for the nature of colour categories.
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