Matching Hungarian and English Color Terms

Barratt, Leslie; Kontra, Miklós

doi:10.1093/ijl/9.2.102

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“…Similarly, Hungarian has two basic terms for “red” colors ( piros and vörös ) [38] and Hungarian speakers use category glosses for “light” and “dark” (világos and s ö tét, respectively) to modify basic color terms much more frequently than that seen in native English color naming. This suggests that there are differences of lightness dimension salience between native-language Hungarian and English color naming [39]. Almost the opposite scenario is found in native-language Vietnamese speakers where one category term (i.e., xanh ) is used for denoting all “greens” and “blues” and the linguistic differentiation of green appearances from blue appearances is only achieved by modifying terms that specify which xanh appearance is “green” (or x anh lá cây or “ xanh like the leaves”) and which xanh is “blue” (or xanh nu'ó'c bin or “ xanh like the ocean”) [13].…”

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A Quantitative Theory of Human Color Choices

Komarova

Jameson

2013

PLoS ONE

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The system for colorimetry adopted by the Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage (CIE) in 1931, along with its subsequent improvements, represents a family of light mixture models that has served well for many decades for stimulus specification and reproduction when highly controlled color standards are important. Still, with regard to color appearance many perceptual and cognitive factors are known to contribute to color similarity, and, in general, to all cognitive judgments of color. Using experimentally obtained odd-one-out triad similarity judgments from 52 observers, we demonstrate that CIE-based models can explain a good portion (but not all) of the color similarity data. Color difference quantified by CIELAB ΔE explained behavior at levels of 81% (across all colors), 79% (across red colors), and 66% (across blue colors). We show that the unexplained variation cannot be ascribed to inter- or intra-individual variations among the observers, and points to the presence of additional factors shared by the majority of responders. Based on this, we create a quantitative model of a lexicographic semiorder type, which shows how different perceptual and cognitive influences can trade-off when making color similarity judgments. We show that by incorporating additional influences related to categorical and lightness and saturation factors, the model explains more of the triad similarity behavior, namely, 91% (all colors), 90% (reds), and 87% (blues). We conclude that distance in a CIE model is but the first of several layers in a hierarchy of higher-order cognitive influences that shape color triad choices. We further discuss additional mitigating influences outside the scope of CIE modeling, which can be incorporated in this framework, including well-known influences from language, stimulus set effects, and color preference bias. We also discuss universal and cultural aspects of the model as well as non-uniformity of the color space with respect to different cultural biases.

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A Quantitative Theory of Human Color Choices

Komarova

Jameson

2013

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“…The second point of departure towards this piece of writing was the knowledge I gained when researching published Italian-Estonian dictionaries (Tavast and Uusküla 2015), a phenomenon also discussed by Barratt and Kontra (1996). Our goal was to shed light on the dictionary entries of Italian blu, azzurro and celeste which resulted in finding a glaring discrepancy between what was presented in most Italian-Estonian dictionaries and the actual semantic meaning and popular usage of blu, azzurro and celeste for the native speakers of Italian (Uusküla 2014).…”

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Translation of colour terms: An empirical approach toward word-translation from English into Estonian

Uusküla

2020

ESUKA-JEFUL

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Translation of colour terms hovers somewhere between cognitive linguistics and translation studies and has therefore remained relatively understudied as a topic, despite the popularity of cross-linguistic colour term studies in the languages of the world. Although colour terms form a relatively small and restricted semantic domain, translating a colour term into another language can cause a massive headache to anyone who has ever tried to seek an appropriate equivalent for it in another language. The article describes how a group of translators and non-translators translated single, mainly simplex secondary colour terms from English into Estonian. Four main translation strategies can be discerned: literal translation, abstraction change or hyponymy, information change or omission and descriptive translation techniques. In addition, the study shows that translation experience and translation education is an advantage even if one translates small units of texts.

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“…The process of initial nomination is always conditioned by some or other factors, the environment primarily. Features of color perception and color use are complementary; they affect the perception and frequency of the use of some or other color terms [3][4][5]. Thus, the relevance of the color words study consists in perceiving them as vehicles and instruments of national cultures and languages, as well as cognitive, pragmatic and ethnocultural factors of language functioning [6][7][8].…”

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Color Linguistics: Khanty riddles

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From the point of view of physics and physiology, the perception of color should be the same by all people, but the process and associations connected with it have historical and cultural determinants in different nations. The conceptual apparatus of color linguistics is studied in different scientific studies and from different points of view. The material of this study comprises riddles extracted from Khanty folklore by the method of continuous sampling, as well as scientific literature on the description of color words. A common way of creating riddle metaphors is color matching. Therefore, exploring color words in the Khanty riddles allows us to reveal the cognitive, pragmatic and cultural factors of language functioning. The present research highlights the role of color terms in the formation of linguistic worldview, as well as conceptualizes and defines the place of the color vocabulary in the cognitive process.

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Matching Hungarian and English Color Terms

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A Quantitative Theory of Human Color Choices

A Quantitative Theory of Human Color Choices

Translation of colour terms: An empirical approach toward word-translation from English into Estonian

Color Linguistics: Khanty riddles

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