RT Book, Section
T1 Chapter 4. Spanish basic colour categories are 11 or 12 depending on the dialect
A1 Lillo Jover, Julio Antonio
A1 Prado-León, Lilia R.
A1 González Perilli, Fernando
A1 Melnikova, Anna
A1 Álvaro Llorente, Leticia
A1 Collado Vega, José Antonio
A1 Moreira Villegas, Humberto
AB A colour-term elicitation task was used to estimate basic colour terms (BCTs) in three Spanish dialects. In Castilian (spoken in Spain) and Mexican, eleven BCTs were identified, compared to twelve in Uruguayan, including celeste “sky blue”. The six primary BCTs and three derived BCTs appeared identical in all three dialects; however, terms for “brown” and “purple” revealed dialectal variation. An Extremes naming task was used to estimate the equivalence relation between BCT counterparts in the three dialects. A Boundary delimitation task was employed to demarcate boundaries of the basic colour categories in a*b*-plane of CIELAB. The task enabled mapping the denotata of the Uruguayan-specific BCT celeste. Results are discussed in the framework of the debate of universal versus language-specific factors.
PB John Benjamins Publishing Company
SN 9789027201041
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99379
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99379
LA eng
NO Universidad de la República Uruguay
NO Banco Santander
DS Docta Complutense
RD 17 abr 2025