Further evolution of natural categorization systems: an approach to evolving color concepts

Augmenting a colour lexicon

“…There are other culturally determined views on augmentation; for example, the emergence hypothesis (Levinson, 2000;Lyons, 1995) proposed that new colour categories emerge in regions of colour space that previously were not named or were named inconsistently (Everett, 2005;Gooyabadi et al, 2019;Kay and Maffi, 1999;Levinson, 2000;Lindsey and Brown, 2014;Lindsey et al, 2015). Yet, a further culturally based alternative for augmentation is that terms are simply borrowed from other cultures.…”