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Word or phrase that refers to a specific color
A color term is a word or phrase that refers to a specific color. The color term may refer to human perception of that color which is usually defined according to the Munsell color system, or to an underlying physical property. There are also numerical systems of color specification, referred to as color spaces. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Color termA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Communities of color are disproportionately exposed to long-term and short-term PM2.5 in metropolitan AmericaInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Estética del color en la lengua latinaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Color test for detection of free terminal amino groups in the solid-phase synthesis of peptidesCited 3,154 times
- Go sideways: Blue–green distinction in languageA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Color Naming SystemA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Color test for detection of free terminal amino groups in the solid-phase synthesis of peptides
Colonoscopic Polypectomy and Long-Term Prevention of Colorectal-Cancer Deaths
Short-term endpoints of conventional versus laparoscopic-assisted surgery in patients with colorectal cancer (MRC CLASICC trial): multicentre, randomised controlled trial
Lateralization of categorical perception of color changes with color term acquisition
Color term knowledge does not affect categorical perception of color in toddlers
Color stability of long-term soft denture liners
Short-Term Memory Affects Color Perception in Context
Phylogenetic approach to the evolution of color term systems
🆕 Influential since 2022
Communities of color are disproportionately exposed to long-term and short-term PM2.5 in metropolitan America
Exploring color metaphor with Behavioral Profiles: A usage-based analysis on the metaphorical meanings of the Chinese color term bái “white”
Metaphorical polysemy of the Chinese color term hēi 黑 “black”
The interplay of long-term memory and working memory: When does object-color prior knowledge affect color visual working memory?
Low color temperature artificial lighting can slow myopia development: Long-term study using juvenile monkeys
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Estética del color en la lengua latinaAntonio Camarero · 1960
- 📕Das Farbenempfindungssystem der HellenenWolfgang Schultz · 1904
Zur Etymologie lexikalisierter FarbwortverbindungenChristiane Wanzeck · 1999
Die Farbe Purpur im frühen GriechentumHeinke Stulz · 1990
Le dictionnaire des mots et expressions de couleur du XXe siècleAnnie Mollard-Desfour · 1998- 📕Alfāẓ al-alwān fī al-ʻArabīyahʻĀhid Māḍī · 2000
Seeing red or tickled pinkChristine Ammer · 1992- 📕Kapitoly z chromatickej terminológie slovenčiny a románskych jazykovJozef Škultéty · 1979
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