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“COGNITIVE STUDIES OF LANGUAGE”

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM IN PERCEPTION OF COLOUR CATEGORIES

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM IN PERCEPTION OF COLOUR CATEGORIES


Author:  S. V. Mitchugina

Abstract
The analysis further shows that established universals of basic color vocabularies are based on visual physiology that determines colour categorization, constraining the possible composite terms denoting physiologically programmed parts of co-lour spectrum.

Keywords:  cognitive mechanism, denotative space, analogy, colour continuum, chromatic / achromatic

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