Multilingual/Bilingual color naming/categories

Synonyms

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Definition

A bilingual person is a person fluent in more than one language, either from birth or acquired later in life. A multilingual person is fluent in more than two languages. Color naming is the process of assigning color terms to refer to color appearances in the world. Color categories are mental representations of the regions of color space that are designated by particular color terms or names.

Empirical Comparisons

The influence of culture on color perception and categorization is most often studied by comparing the use of single-word (monolexemic) color terms to name color categories across different languages, as in the World Color Survey (1, 2). Color categorization and naming have been studied across a wide range of cultures to explore questions about the universality of basic color categories, relativism of color naming and/or perception, and the ways in which color perception contribute to color