Languages tend to divide the "warm" part of the color spectrum into more color words, such as orange, yellow, and red, compared to the "cooler" regions, which include blue and green, cognitive ...
Claire Bowern receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Australian Research Council. She is Vice-President of the Endangered Language Fund. It is striking that English color words ...
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The human eye can perceive millions of different colors, but the number of categories human languages use to group those colors is much smaller. Some languages use as few as three ...