Tarahumara color modifiers
Category Structure Presaging Evolutionary Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2465477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Don Burge, Don Burgess (The University of Texas at El Paso), Willett Kempton (0000-0002-7284-8954, Michigan State University), Robert E Maclaury (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 133-149 |
| Publication date | 1983-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1983.10.1.02a00080 |
| OpenAlex | W2134584162 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 17 |
To name colors, Tarahumara speakers use basic color terms carrying obligatory modifiers. The modifiers specify the grade of membership of a color stimulus in a color category. The internal structure of color categories is inferred from modifiers and from focal and mapping tasks. Some categories, though named by a single basic color term, have disjunctions in internal structure corresponding to separate categories predicted at later evolutionary stages, interinformant variation suggests that Tarahumara is in the process of evolving from one evolutionary stage to another. [cognitive anthropology, color, evolution, category structure, Tarahumara
Cognitive science · Artificial Intelligence · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Multisensory perception and integration · Psychology
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On the Internal Structure of Perceptual and Semantic Categories11this Research Was Supported in Part by a Grant to the Author (Under Her Former Name, Eleanor Rosch Heider) From the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry # G67-392, in Part by Funds Made Available to the Child Study Center of Brown University From the Grant Foundation and From the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Collaborative Project (Ph-43-68-13), and in Part by Research Funds Made Available by the University of California at Berkeley (220 Grant #K9pf-429). I Wish to Thank Karl G. Heider for His Help in the Field in West Irian (Indonesian New Guinea), Dr. Robert Olton for Assistance in Carrying Out Experiment 3, and Keith Burton, Randy Street, and Peter Lewitt Who Assisted With Experiment 4. Experiment 4 Was Performed With Dr. Richard Millward While the Author Was a Research Associate at Brown University.
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
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| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2025 (42) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |