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    1. The document discusses the linguistic relativity hypothesis, which proposes that the language one speaks determines how they see and experience the world. 2. It describes studies that tested whether language influences color perception, finding that cultures with fewer basic color terms in their language had difficulty distinguishing between certain colors. 3. The Davidoff-Robertson study tested speakers of the Himba language in Namibia, which has only five basic color terms, and found they had trouble distinguishing colors that their language does not have dedicated terms for.

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    1. The document discusses the linguistic relativity hypothesis, which proposes that the language one speaks determines how they see and experience the world. 2. It describes studies that tested whether language influences color perception, finding that cultures with fewer basic color terms in their language had difficulty distinguishing between certain colors. 3. The Davidoff-Robertson study tested speakers of the Himba language in Namibia, which has only five basic color terms, and found they had trouble distinguishing colors that their language does not have dedicated terms for.

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    Colour Perceptions

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    1. The document discusses the linguistic relativity hypothesis, which proposes that the language one speaks determines how they see and experience the world. 2. It describes studies that tested whether language influences color perception, finding that cultures with fewer basic color terms in their language had difficulty distinguishing between certain colors. 3. The Davidoff-Robertson study tested speakers of the Himba language in Namibia, which has only five basic color terms, and found they had trouble distinguishing colors that their language does not have dedicated terms for.

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    Stamler Lili y68uwo
    2016.11.30.
    Surroundings/
    location-
    influenced
    learning
    Linguistic relativity hypothesis
    Language determines the way of seeing
    the world

    Chomsky: NO!

    Davidoff-Robertson study

    Physiological basis: vision


    Davidoff-Robertson
    Cognitive or visual-environmental?
    Which colours can you
    recognise?
    what colour is this?... which of these is the best
    example of the colour?...which is a true one?...
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    range
    of
    colours
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    Visual diet?
    Thank you for
    your attention.
    MY SOURCES ARE:
    http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colours
    -in-cultures/
    http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17970
    http://research.gold.ac.uk/5673/1/PSY_davidoff-robertson-color-cate
    gories_2005.pdf
    Guy Cook: Applied Linguistics, pages 50-59
    http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/
    https://
    thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/detailed-model-old-mast-ship-1782836.j
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