Quote: even though Dani has only two basic color categories, the primary color categories are psychologically real for Dani speakers

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If the classical theory [of categories] were both correct … [Eleanor Rosch studied] Dani, a New Guinea language that has … white, red, yellow). … Rosch found that Dani speakers, when asked for … yellow for mola with different speakers making different … Rosch set out to show that primary color … out to challenge one of Whorf's hypotheses, namely, … [Rosch, Cognitive Psychology, 4:328-50, 1973] … [She and others found that focal colors were learned more easily, remembered better, and were selected as "colors" by three-year-olds.] … [p. 41] Focal colors correspond to what Rosch in … cognitive status--that of being a "best example." … she extended the results from colors to other …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: the focal colors serve as prototypes or cognitive reference points for a category; other physical categories have prototypes

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