Color naming reflects optimal partitions of color space
Color naming reflects optimal partitions of color space
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.0610341104
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发表时间：
2007-01-23
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Khetarpal, Naveen
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作者：
Regier, Terry;Kay, Paul;Khetarpal, Naveen
世界语言中颜色类别的性质是有争议的。一种主要的观点认为，颜色类别是围绕着通用的焦点颜色组织的，而另一种相反的观点认为，类别是由语言约定在其边界上定义的。这两种对立的观点都受到现有数据的挑战。这里，我们基于Jameson和D 'Andrade的提议[Jameson KA，D' Andrade RG（1997）in Color Categories in Thought and Language，eds哈丁CL，Maffi L（剑桥大学出版社，剑桥，英国），pp 295-319]：跨语言的颜色命名反映了不规则形状的感知颜色空间的最优或接近最优的划分。我们正式这个想法，测试它对颜色命名数据从广泛的语言，并表明它占颜色命名的普遍趋势，同时也容纳一些观察到的跨语言的变化。
The nature of color categories in the world's languages is contested. One major view holds that color categories are organized around universal focal colors, whereas an opposing view holds instead that categories are defined at their boundaries by linguistic convention. Both of these standardly opposed views are challenged by existing data. Here, we argue for a third view based on a proposal by Jameson and D'Andrade [Jameson KA, D'Andrade RG (1997) in Color Categories in Thought and Language, eds Hardin CL, Maffi L(Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, U.K.), pp 295-319]: that color naming across languages reflects optimal or near-optimal divisions of an irregularly shaped perceptual color space. We formalize this idea, test it against color-naming data from a broad range of languages and show that it accounts for universal tendencies in color naming while also accommodating some observed cross-language variation.