Color and language: Worldwide distribution of Daltonism and distinct words for "blue"
Color and language: Worldwide distribution of Daltonism and distinct words for "blue"
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DOI：
10.1017/s0952523804213098
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发表时间：
2004-05-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Lindsey, DT
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作者：
Brown, AM;Lindsey, DT
对已发表文献的地理审查证实，红绿色觉缺陷（道尔顿症）在赤道附近很少见，在高纬度地区更为普遍，正如其他人所报道的那样。一项对有道尔顿现象数据的人群所使用的语言词典的调查证实，“蓝色”的独特词汇在赤道附近也很少见，在高纬度地区更常见。这些结果进行了比较，以显示语言的比例与“蓝色”和道尔顿症的流行率之间有更强的关系。我们相信，“蓝色”和道尔顿之间的强烈相关性表明，这两种现象的进化，生理原因。
A geographical review of the published literature confirmed that red-green color-vision deficiency (Daltonism) is rare near the equator and more prevalent at higher latitudes, as others have reported. A survey of dictionaries of the languages spoken by the populations for which Daltonism data are available confirmed that distinct words for "blue" are also rare near the equator, and more common at higher latitudes. These results were compared to show an even stronger relation between the proportion of languages with a word for "blue" and the prevalence of Daltonism. We believe that the strong correlation between "blue" and Daltonism suggests that an evolutionary, physiological cause for both phenomena.