作者: RICHARD S. COOK , Paul Kay , Terry Regier
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008044612-7/50064-0
关键词: Test (assessment) 、 Color naming 、 Data archive 、 Terminology 、 Computer science 、 World Wide Web
摘要: Abstract The World Color Survey (WCS) is a research project that was undertaken to validate, invalidate, or – most likely modify the main findings of Berlin and Kay (1969) (B&K): (1) there exist universal crosslinguistic constraints on color naming, (2) basic terminology systems tend develop in partially fixed order. To this end, WCS collected naming data from speakers 110 unwritten languages. have recently been compiled into unified archive, available online at http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/data.html . In chapter, we review history WCS, including creation describe our recent use archive test universality across