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Lakoff, G., Women, Fire and Dangerous Things, What categories reveal about the mind, Chicago, University of Chicago Press , 1987. Google

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40 ;;Quote: even though Dani has only two basic color categories, the primary color categories are psychologically real for Dani speakers
40+;;Quote: the focal colors serve as prototypes or cognitive reference points for a category; other physical categories have prototypes
51 ;;Quote: basic-level categories such as 'chair' or 'water' are human-sized; they depend on how people interact with objects


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