Unique and common qualifiers in the lexical differentiation of blue and brown in American English: Corpus evidence at the vision–language interface

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<p>While humans perceive color as a nearly continuous spectrum, most languages categorize hues using a small set of basic color terms (BCTs). Several languages (e.g., Russian, Greek, Italian) lexicalize two or more basic ‘blue’ categories, distinguishing light from dark blue, a distinction English is usually said to lack. No basic split for English blue has been found, yet speakers may differentiate blue shades in...

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• Color Vision Defects
• Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Cation Channels
• Ion Channels
• Orphan Nuclear Receptors
• Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear
• Vision, Ocular
• Visual Cortex
• Visual Perception

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Literature Corpus work

9923d973-3a4e-568e-8864-3898718b6398

DOI

10.31234/osf.io/a5uq2_v2