Author Question: Berlin and Kay's research suggested that color terms emerged during cultural development in an ... (Read 71 times)

FButt · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

Berlin and Kay's research suggested that color terms emerged during cultural development in an orderly fashion. They believed the first three stages of emergence were:

a. (1) red, (2) blue, (3) black and white.
b. (1) black and white, (2) red, (3) green or yellow.
c. (1) black and white, (2) blue, (3) green.
d. (1) red and blue, (2) black and white, (3) grey.

Question 2

A recent challenge to the idea of linguistic relativity came from Berlin and Kay's study of:

a. basic color terms.
b. essential kin types.
c. words for water.
d. words for snow.