Language strategies for color
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Joris Bleys
Abstract
This chapter studies three strategies giving rise to color categories and descriptions for them: a strategy for basic hue terms (``yellow'', ``blue'', ``green'', etc.), for brightness terms (``shiny'', ``dull'', etc.) and for graded membership terms (as in: ``very blue'' or ``slightly blue''). For each strategy, experiments are performed for the reconstruction, acquisition and formation of a language system. The paper then turns to an investigation of the selectionist dynamics at the level of strategies, modelling the competition between a brightness-based and hue-based color system and achieving a shift from brightness to hue as attested in the historical record.
Abstract
This chapter studies three strategies giving rise to color categories and descriptions for them: a strategy for basic hue terms (``yellow'', ``blue'', ``green'', etc.), for brightness terms (``shiny'', ``dull'', etc.) and for graded membership terms (as in: ``very blue'' or ``slightly blue''). For each strategy, experiments are performed for the reconstruction, acquisition and formation of a language system. The paper then turns to an investigation of the selectionist dynamics at the level of strategies, modelling the competition between a brightness-based and hue-based color system and achieving a shift from brightness to hue as attested in the historical record.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Introduction. Self-organization and selection in cultural language evolution 1
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Part I. Emergence of perceptually grounded vocabularies
- The Grounded Naming Game 41
- Language strategies for color 61
- Emergent mirror systems for body language 87
- The co-evolution of basic spatial terms and categories 111
- Multi-dimensional meanings in lexicon formation 143
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Part II. Emergence of grammatical systems
- The evolution of case systems for marking event structure 169
- Emergent functional grammar for space 207
- The emergence of internal agreement systems 233
- A language strategy for aspect 257
- The emergence of quantifiers 277
- Index 305
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Introduction. Self-organization and selection in cultural language evolution 1
-
Part I. Emergence of perceptually grounded vocabularies
- The Grounded Naming Game 41
- Language strategies for color 61
- Emergent mirror systems for body language 87
- The co-evolution of basic spatial terms and categories 111
- Multi-dimensional meanings in lexicon formation 143
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Part II. Emergence of grammatical systems
- The evolution of case systems for marking event structure 169
- Emergent functional grammar for space 207
- The emergence of internal agreement systems 233
- A language strategy for aspect 257
- The emergence of quantifiers 277
- Index 305
