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Color Terms: Universality and Evolution by HumbertoC.Nobre is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document reports on research that investigated the universality and evolution of basic color terms across languages. The researchers studied color term data from 80 languages from a variety of language families. They found evidence that while languages encode different numbers of basic color categories, there is a universal set of 11 color categories that all languages draw from. Additionally, they discovered that the order in which languages acquire color terms follows a strict sequence, with language
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