There are no "color universals" but there are universals of visual semantics

Anthropological Linguistics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 217-244

  Wierzbicka, Anna ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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