Color categories are culturally diverse in cognition as well as in language

Cross-Cultural Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 56-71

  Roberson, Debi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Color categories; Cultural relativity; Linguistic relativity; Universality

Indexed keywords

EID: 12944283030     PISSN: 10693971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069397104267890     Document Type: Review

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