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    Color naming
    (1998) Şahin, Ebru
    In this study, visual aspects of color and neurophysiological processes involved in the phenomenon, language of color and color models were explained in addition to the discussion of different ideas, orientations and previous works behind the subject of matter. Available color terms in Turkish language have been identified and the most frequently known or used non-basic color terms have been attained. An experimental research has been conducted to investigate the resemblance of the basic, and mostly used non-basic color terms, in the minds of the native speakers of Turkish language. Using Munsell Color System, color ranges, reflecting the color naming and color perception of Turkish Society, have been constructed for each color term investigated in the experimental research.
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    What can we learn from toddlers about categorical perception of color? comments on Goldstein, Davidoff, and Roberson
    (Elsevier Inc., 2009) Franklin A.; Wright, O.; Davies, I. R. L.
    We comment on Goldstein, Davidoff, and Roberson's replication and extension (Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102, 219-238 [2009]) of our study of the effect of toddlers' color term knowledge on their categorical perception (CP) of color (Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 90, 114-141 [2005]). First, we discuss how best to assess color term knowledge when concerned with the effects of language on color CP. A reanalysis of our data indicates that even toddlers who do not know the terms for the relevant focal colors still show CP. Second, we comment on Goldstein and colleagues' finding of blue-purple CP, as we did, but not of blue-green CP in Himba toddlers. We present contrasting data from Wright (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Surrey, 2006) that demonstrates blue-green CP in Himba toddlers. Finally, we discuss the limitations of the approach taken by all of these investigations and discuss theoretical accounts of the origin and nature of color CP.