Relatively Speaking: An Account of the Relationship between Language and Thought in the Color Domain

Words and the Mind: How Words Capture Human Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Roberson, Debi ^a   Hanley, J Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Color domain; Color perception; Color universals; Language

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920600426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311129.003.0010     Document Type: Chapter

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