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Tables of Contents for Color Categories in Thought and Language
Chapter/Section Title
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Page Count
Notes on contributors
ix
1 Introduction
1
20
C. L. Hardin
Luisa Maffi
I THE WORLD COLOR SURVEY
21
38
2 Color naming across languages
21
38
Paul Kay
Brent Berlin
Luisa Maffi
William Merrifield
II VISUAL PSYCHOLOGISTS
59
138
3 The psychophysics of color
59
30
Bill Wooten
David L. Miller
4 Physiological mechanisms of color vision
89
29
Israel Abramov
5 The neuropsychology of color
118
17
Jules Davidoff
6 Insights gained from naming the OSA colors
135
16
Robert M. Boynton
7 Beyond the elements: investigations of hue
151
12
David L. Miller
8 Color systems for cognitive research
163
34
Lars Sivik
III ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND LINGUISTS
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98
9 Establishing basic color terms: measures and techniques
197
27
Greville G. Corbett
Ian R. L. Davies
10 Color shift: evolution of English color terms from brightness to hue
224
16
Ronald W. Casson
11 Two observations on culture contact and the Japanese color nomenclature system
240
21
James Stanlaw
12 Skewing and darkening: dynamics of the Cool category
261
22
Robert E. MacLaury
13 Genes, opsins, neurons, and color categories: closing the gaps
283
12
Stephen L. Zegura
IV DISSENTING VOICES
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78
14 It's not really red, green, yellow, blue: an inquiry into perceptual color space
295
25
Kimberly Jameson
Roy G. D'Andrade
15 The linguistics of "color"
320
27
John A. Lucy
16 Closing thoughts
347
26
Luisa Maffi
C. L. Hardin
Subject index
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12
Author index
385