THE WORLD COLOR SURVEY DATABASE
Elsevier eBooksPublished 1 January 2005
Richard S. Cook, Paul Kay, Terry Regier
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The history of the WCS is reviewed, including the creation of the online data archive, and the recent use of the archive to test the universality of color naming across languages is described.
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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) that there exist universal crosslinguistic constraints on color naming, and (2) that basic color terminology systems tend to develop in a partially fixed order. To this end, the WCS collected color naming data from speakers of 110 unwritten languages. The data have recently been compiled into a unified data archive, available online at http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/data.html. In this chapter, we review the history of the WCS, including the creation of the online data archive, and describe our recent use of the archive to test the universality of color naming across languages.
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