Toward a universalism Paul Kay

Jul 19, 2014

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Toward a universalism Paul Kay. 3308 Psycholinguistics. Berlin and Kay (1969 ) Naming experiments: a universal pattern in colour naming of different languages. Universalism ( nativism ). What mechanisms could underlie universalism of colour categories according to nativists ?

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Toward a universalismPaul Kay 3308 Psycholinguistics

Berlin and Kay (1969) Naming experiments:a universal pattern in colour naming of different languages.
Universalism (nativism) What mechanisms could underlie universalism of colour categories according to nativists? • REGULARITYin human early visual perception, especially the opponent character of colour vision (Kay and McDaniel, 1978) AND in the neural coding of the brain (Durham, 1991). (b) GENETIC coding of colour categories (Shepard, 1992).