American AnthropologistVolume 85, Issue 2 p. 387-391 Free Access Perceptual Distances and the Basic Color Term Encoding Sequence RICHARD K. SUN, RICHARD K. SUN Department of Anthropology Northwestern University Evanston, ILSearch for more papers by this author RICHARD K. SUN, RICHARD K. SUN Department of Anthropology Northwestern University Evanston, ILSearch for more papers by this author First published: June 1983 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1983.85.2.02a00110Citations: 14AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat REFERENCES CITED Berlin, Brent, and Paul Kay 1969 Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution. Berkeley : University of California Press. Bornstein, Marc H. 1973 The Psychophysiological Component of Cultural Difference in Color Naming and Illusion Susceptibility. Behavior Science Notes 8: 41– 101. Ember, Melvin 1978 Size of Color Lexicon: Interaction of Cultural and Biological Factors. American Anthropologist 80: 364– 367. Farmer, Eric W., Robert M. Taylor, and Andrew J. Belyavin 1980 Large Color Differences and the Geometry of Munsell Color Space. Journal of the Optical Society of America 70: 243– 245. Heider, Eleanor R. 1972 Universals in Color Naming and Memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology 93: 10– 20. Hurvich, Leo M., and Dorothea Jameson 1957 An Opponent-Process Theory of Color Vision. Psychological Review 64: 384– 404. Indow, Tarow 1974 Applications of Multidimensional Scaling in Perception. In Psychophysical Judgment and Measurement. Edward C. Carterette and Morton P. Friedman, eds. (their Handbook of Perception, volume 2). pp. 493– 531. New York : Academic Press. Kay, Paul, and Chad K. McDaniel 1978 The Linguistic Significance of the Meanings of Basic Color Terms. Language 54: 610– 646. Nickerson, Dorothy, and Sidney M. Newhall 1943 A Psychological Color Solid. Journal of the Optical Society of America 33: 419– 422. Rosch, Eleanor 1975 Cognitive Reference Points. Cognitive Psychology 7: 532– 547. Von Wattenwyl, André, and Heinrich Zollinger 1979 Color Term Salience and Neurophysiology of Color Vision. American Anthropologist 81: 279– 288. Zipf, George K. 1972 Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort: An Introduction to Human Ecology. New York : Hafner. (reprinted from Addison-Wesley, 1949). Citing Literature Volume85, Issue2June 1983Pages 387-391 ReferencesRelatedInformation