Here are some papers on color naming and Construction Grammar. Scroll
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for some info on related sites, etc. The papers in each
section (color naming, Construction Grammar) are listed in
chronological order and
are in postscript format unless otherwise indicated. Later entries
are in PDF format.
PAPERS ON COLOR NAMING
Color naming across languages. Kay, Paul, Brent Berlin, Luisa Maffi, and William Merrifield. To appear in C.L Hardin and L. Maffi (eds.), Color Categories in Thought and Language . Cambridge. 1997 APPEARED: SEPTEMBER 1997.
Science ≠ Imperialism: There are non-trivial constraints on color categorization. Kay, Paul and Brent Berlin. To appear in Brain and Behavioral Sciences. 1997. APPEARED, JUNE 1997.
The emergence of basic color lexicons hypothesis: A
comment on John Lyons'
"The vocabulary of colour with particular reference to
Ancient Greek and Classical Latin." Paul Kay. To
appear in The Language of Color in the Mediterranean. Alexander
Borg (editor). Stockholm. Almqvist and Wiksell International. Appeared
1999.
"Color Categorization." Paul Kay To
appear in The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences,
Robert A. Wilson and Frank C. Keil (eds.). This is an
encyclopedia article with 3.5 pages of text and 5 pages of
bibliography. (Appeared 1999)
Methodological Issues in Cross-Language
Color Naming(postscript).
Color Appearance and the Emergence and
Evolution of Basic Color Lexicons. Paul Kay and Luisa Maffi.
To appear in American Anthropologist.Appeared
(1999)101:743-760.
Asymmetries in the Distribution of Composite
and Derived Basic Color Categories. Paul Kay. Comment [4 pages]
on a paper by Stephen Palmer, entitled Color, Consciousness and the
Isomorphism Constraint, to appear in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences. Appeared (1999) 22:957-958.
Color. Paul Kay. A 1500 word, encyclopedia
style article to appear in a special issue of the Journal of
Linguistic Anthropology, edited by Alessandro Duranti.
Appeared (1999) 1:29-32.
The Linguistics of Color Terms. Paul
Kay. A 3000 word entry for the International Encyclopedia
of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, ed. by Neil J. Smelser and Paul
B. Baltes.(Appeared 2001, Elsevier; Amsterdam, NY)
Color Categories are Not Arbitrary.(pdf)
Paul Kay.Cross Cultural Research(2005) 39, 39-55(2005)
Individual
differences in unique and binary hues [Abstract](html).Gokhan
Malkoc, Paul Kay, and Michael A. Webster Journal of Vision 2, 32
(2002).
Resolving
the question of color naming universals(pdf). Paul Kay and Terry
Regier.Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 100, 9085-9089 (2003).
Color naming and sunlight: Commentary on Lindsey
and Brown (2002)(pdf). Terry Regier and Paul Kay.
Psychological Science. 15, 289-290 (2004).
Color naming, lens aging, and grue:
What the optics of the aging eye can teach us about color language(pdf).
Joseph L. Hardy, Christina M. Frederick, Paul Kay, and John S.
Werner. Psychological Science (2005) 16, 321-327.
Individual and Population
Differences in Focal Colors(pdf).
Michael A. Webster and Paul Kay.
In Anthropology of Color, ed. by
Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei and Don Dedrick. Amsterdam:
John Benjamins. pp. 29-53.
(2007)
Variations in color naming within and
across populations [commentary on Steels and Belpaeme](pdf).
Michael A. Webster and Paul Kay. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28,
512-513.
2005.
Focal colors are universal after all
(pdf, preprint).Terry Regier, Paul Kay and Richard S. Cook.
Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences 102:8386-8391 (2005).
The World Color Survey Database: History and
Use(pdf). Richard S. Cook, Paul Kay, and Terry Regier.
In
Cohen, Henri and Claire Lefebvre
(eds.) Handbook of Categorisation in the
Cognitive Sciences. Elsevier. (2005)
Variations in normal color vision.IV.
Binary hues and hue scaling.(pdf)Gokhan Malkoc, Paul Kay and
Michael A. Webster. J.Opt. Soc. Am. A. 22, 2154-2168 (2005). Cardinal
points of cone opponent space do not correspond to unique RYGB
judgments, nor do
RYGB unique hue choices predict intermediate binaries.
Universal foci and varying boundaries in linguistic color
categories. Terry Regier, Paul Kay, and Richard S. Cook (2005). In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou and M. Bucciarelli (Eds.)
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science
Society.
Color naming universals: the case of Berinmo.
Paul Kay and Terry Regier. ms. The color naming data of Berinmo and
other 5-term languages exemplify universal tendencies in cross-language
color naming.Cognition. 2007 Feb;102(2):289-98. Epub 2006 Feb 7
Language, thought and color: recent developments.
Paul Kay and Terry Regier. TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences Vol.10 No.2
February 2006. A brief survey of recent
developments in research on color
naming and color cognition suggests that the popular
opposition of 'relativist'
versus 'universalist' approaches conceals, rather than clarifies,
interesting new questions.
Whorf hypothesis is supported in the
right visual field but not the left. Aubrey L. Gilbert, Terry
Regier, Paul Kay, and Richard B. Ivry. Target colors of different
lexical category from distractors are found faster than targets of
the
same lexical category as distractors,
but only in right visual field (which feeds
the left cerebral
hemisphere.)
Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences.
103, 489-494. (2005).
Further evidence that Whorfian effects are
stronger in the right visual field than the left.
G. V. Drivonikou,
P. Kay, T. Regier, R. B. Ivry, A. L. Gilbert, A. Franklin, and I. R.
L. Davies. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences. 104, 1097-1102. (2007).
Color Naming is Near Optimal. Terry
Regier, Paul Kay & Naveen Khetarpal. In D. S. McNamara and J. G.
Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society. (2007).
Color naming reflects optimal partitions of
color space. T. Regier, P. Kay, and N. Khetarpal. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences. 104, 1436-1441. (2007).
Support for lateralization of the
Whorf effect beyond the realm of color discrimination. (in press)
Aubrey
Gilbert, Terry Regier, Paul Kay, & Richard B. Ivry. Brain and
Language. (2007).
Lateralized Whorf: Language influences
perceptual decision in the right visual field (in press) Paul Kay, Terry
Regier, Aubrey L. Gilbert, & Richard B. Ivry.
In James W. Minett and William S-Y. Wang, eds. Language,
Evolution, and the Brain. Hong Kong: The City University of
Hong Kong Press.
Language affects patterns of brain
activation
associated with perceptual decision
Li Hai Tan, Alice H. D. Chan, Paul
Kay,
Pek-Lan Khong, Lawrance K. C. Yip, and Kang-Kwong
Luke. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105,
4004-4009 (2008).
Categorical perception of color is lateralized
to the
right hemisphere in infants, but to the left
hemisphere in adults. A. Franklin, G. V. Drivonikou, L.
Bevis, I. R. L. Davies, P. Kay, and T. Regier. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 3221-3225 (2008).
Methodological Issues in Cross-Language Color Naming.(pdf)
Paul Kay.
First appeared in French as La recherche interlinguistique sur les noms
de couleur: Quelques considérations méthodologiques. Anthropologie et
Sociétés
23, 69-90 (1999). English version appeared in Language,
Culture and Society, Ed.
by Christine Jourdan and Kevin Tuite. Cambridge University Press
(2006) pp 115-134.
PAPERS ON CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR AND RELATED TOPICS