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Color Names across Languages | |
The following sources are recommended by a professor emeritus whose research specialty is the cross-cultural semantics of color identification. |
· Berlin, Brent, and Paul Kay (1999) Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution. University of California Press.
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