Chapter 4. Spanish basic colour categories are 11 or 12 depending on the dialect

Julio Lillo; Lilia R. Prado-León; Fernando Gonzalez Perilli; Anna Melnikova; Leticia Álvaro; José Collado; Humberto Moreira

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Chapter 4. Spanish basic colour categories are 11 or 12 depending on the dialect

Julio Lillo , Lilia R. Prado-León , Fernando Gonzalez Perilli , Anna Melnikova , Leticia Álvaro , José Collado and Humberto Moreira

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A colour-term elicitation task was used to estimate basic colour terms (BCTs) in three Spanish dialects. In Castilian (spoken in Spain) and Mexican, eleven BCTs were identified, compared to twelve in Uruguayan, including celeste “sky blue”. The six primary BCTs and three derived BCTs appeared identical in all three dialects; however, terms for “brown” and “purple” revealed dialectal variation. An Extremes naming task was used to estimate the equivalence relation between BCT counterparts in the three dialects. A Boundary delimitation task was employed to demarcate boundaries of the basic colour categories in a*b*-plane of CIELAB. The task enabled mapping the denotata of the Uruguayan-specific BCT celeste. Results are discussed in the framework of the debate of universal versus language-specific factors.

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Prelim pages i
Table of contents v
Preface x
Contributors xii
Abbreviations xviii
Emeritus Professor Christian J. Kay 1940–2016 xx
Section 1. Colour perception and cognition
Chapter 1. The colours and the spectrum 5
Chapter 2. Ensemble perception of colour 23
Chapter 3. The role of saturation in colour naming and colour appearance 41
Chapter 4. Spanish basic colour categories are 11 or 12 depending on the dialect 59
Chapter 5. Diatopic variation in the referential meaning of the “Italian blues” 83
Chapter 6. A Color Inference Framework 107
Chapter 7. Kandinsky’s colour-form correspondence theory 123
Chapter 8. Cross-modal associations involving colour and touch 147
Section 2. The language of colour
Chapter 9. Is it all guesswork? 167
Chapter 10. ColCat 179
Chapter 11. Unifying research on colour and emotion 209
Chapter 12. Divergence and shared conceptual organization 223
Chapter 13. Colour and ideology 241
Chapter 14. B lack and white linguistic category entrenchment in English 269
Chapter 15. Colour terms in the blue area among Estonian-Russian and Russian-Estonian bilinguals 285
Chapter 16. The journey of the “apple from China” 301
Section 3. The diversity of colour
Chapter 17. A theory of visual stress and its application to the use of coloured filters for reading 319
Chapter 18. Does deuteranomaly place children at a disadvantage in educational settings? 341
Chapter 19. Common basis for colour and light studies 357
Chapter 20. Identifying colour use and knowledge in textile design practice 371
Chapter 21. An empirical study on fabric image retrieval with multispectral images using colour and pattern features 391
Chapter 22. The effects of correlated colour temperature on wayfinding performance and emotional reactions 405
Chapter 23. Colour in the Pompeiian cityscape 419
Chapter 24. Mapping the Antarctic 441
Subject index 463

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Chapters in this book

Prelim pages i
Table of contents v
Preface x
Contributors xii
Abbreviations xviii
Emeritus Professor Christian J. Kay 1940–2016 xx
Section 1. Colour perception and cognition
Chapter 1. The colours and the spectrum 5
Chapter 2. Ensemble perception of colour 23
Chapter 3. The role of saturation in colour naming and colour appearance 41
Chapter 4. Spanish basic colour categories are 11 or 12 depending on the dialect 59
Chapter 5. Diatopic variation in the referential meaning of the “Italian blues” 83
Chapter 6. A Color Inference Framework 107
Chapter 7. Kandinsky’s colour-form correspondence theory 123
Chapter 8. Cross-modal associations involving colour and touch 147
Section 2. The language of colour
Chapter 9. Is it all guesswork? 167
Chapter 10. ColCat 179
Chapter 11. Unifying research on colour and emotion 209
Chapter 12. Divergence and shared conceptual organization 223
Chapter 13. Colour and ideology 241
Chapter 14. B lack and white linguistic category entrenchment in English 269
Chapter 15. Colour terms in the blue area among Estonian-Russian and Russian-Estonian bilinguals 285
Chapter 16. The journey of the “apple from China” 301
Section 3. The diversity of colour
Chapter 17. A theory of visual stress and its application to the use of coloured filters for reading 319
Chapter 18. Does deuteranomaly place children at a disadvantage in educational settings? 341
Chapter 19. Common basis for colour and light studies 357
Chapter 20. Identifying colour use and knowledge in textile design practice 371
Chapter 21. An empirical study on fabric image retrieval with multispectral images using colour and pattern features 391
Chapter 22. The effects of correlated colour temperature on wayfinding performance and emotional reactions 405
Chapter 23. Colour in the Pompeiian cityscape 419
Chapter 24. Mapping the Antarctic 441
Subject index 463

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