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

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Wierzbicka, Anna

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Indiana University Press

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The search for the "universals of color" that was initiated by Berlin and Kay's classic book is based on the assumption that there can be, and indeed that there are, some conceptual universals of color. This article brings new evidence, new analyses, and

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Anthropological Linguistics

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2037-12-31