Abstract
Abstract An understanding of color symbolism entails a study of color terms as well as color use. The first study of color terms on a universalist level was conducted in the 1960s by the anthropologist Brent Berlin and the linguist Paul Kay (1969; hereafter B&K), who proposed, with respect to the acquisition and use of color terms in all contemporary natural languages, that there are seven stages of color term usage; that color terms are acquired in a fixed, chronological order in an evolutionary sequence; and that there is a correlation between the complexity of color terms and cultural and technological complexity.
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