Colour

Question 1

Berlin and Kay 1969

Answer 1

Basic colour theory - across languages there are universailities in the colours that participants indicate to be prototypical representations of colour terms
evidence suggests, most languages contain the same basic colour terms - black and white, followed by red, followed by either green or yellow, the both green and yellow, then blue
systematic similarities, not only in which colours appear in language vocabularies but in how people identify and name colours

Question 2

Just noticeable difference task

Answer 2

• participants discrimnate two colours
  These colours differ incrementally on the colour spectrum either across a colour boundary (matching the language category) or within a colour boundary.
  In each case the distance in equidistant.
  Findings show that participants are better at identifying differences in colours across colour boundaries as opposed to within colour boundaries
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Question 3

Tasks used to investigate linguistic relativity

Answer 3

• rely on categorical perception effects
• use of triad task > ppts have to decide whether colour A or B better matches the target x

Question 4

Grue

Answer 4

about a third of the worlds languages have a single term ‘grue’ that covers green and blue (CITATION)