Mapping Words to Colors: A Linguistics Study

11th October, 2021

15 October 2021, Linguistics, News of the Week, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily]

While the range of colors your eyes may perceive extends beyond the words language provides, languages around the globe are remarkably similar in how they partition the space of colors into a vocabulary. Yet differences exist. In a study examining 130 diverse languages around the world, researchers developed an algorithm to infer the communicative needs that different linguistic communities place on colors.

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