Naming the Rainbow
Dedrick, D.![Naming the Rainbow](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/106/10688288/CHSBZCOP0310688288.jpg)
Is there a universal biolinguistic disposition for the development of `basic' colour words? This question has been a subject of debate since Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution was published in 1969. Naming the Rainbow is the first extended study of this debate. The author describes and criticizes empirically and conceptually unified models of colour naming that relate basic colour terms directly to ...