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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"color terms"”.
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Experiencing Color in the Indo-European World: A Literary and Linguistic Approach
This study investigates the language of color in the ancient Indo-European world. The first of three parts is a linguistic endeavor that traces the history of color terms in the Indo-European language family and reconstructs the color roots that existed at various stages throughout the …
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Redefining Color in Synesthesia
Grapheme-color synesthesia is a condition in which letters and numbers automatically trigger the sensation of specific colors in a person’s mind. Previous research on synesthesia revealed that certain letters seem to be associated with certain colors at a rate greater than chance. The studies that …
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Distributional semantic phrases vs. semantic distributional nonsense: Adjective Modification in Compositional Distributional Semantics
… of adjectival modifiers – intersectively used color terms, subsectively used color terms, and intensional adjectives – and test the ability of different composition strategies to model their behavior. Next, I propose an approach to characterize semantic deviance of composite expressions using …
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A computational model of acoustic packaging
… iCub robot showed that semantic information on color terms can be extracted from acoustic packages. These results were supported by further analysis of adult-child interactions, which verified that a substantial amount of semantic information can be gathered by exploiting this connection. …
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Colour out of space: colour in the construction and usage of monuments of Neolithic Atlantic Europe.
… humanity, as evidenced by Berlin and Kay’s Basic Color Terms and studies into the key mechanisms of colour vision. Deeper still, it seems to be the case that specific colours re-appear in human art, iconography, ritual and folklore as a leitmotif running through our cultural evolution; that is, …
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Effects of temperature, light and nutrition on color and anthocyanin content of poinsettia bracts
… an objective procedure for measuring the color of poinsettia bracts, to develop a method for quantitatively determining the concentration of bract anthocyanins, and to determine the effect of temperature, light intensity and nutrition on the color and the anthocyanin content of poinsettia …
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
Afrikaans: Die kognitiewe linguistiek voer aan dat meeste abstrakte konsepte slegs in terme van metafore bedink en verstaan kan word. Dekolonialiteit as abstrakte konsep is steeds ’n vurige besprekingspunt in die konteks van hoër onderwys in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie verhandeling beoog om die verband …