Hardin C.L., Maffi Luisa (Editors). Color Categories in Thought and Language

Cambridge University Press, 2002. — x, 404. — ISBN: 0521496934; ISBN: 0521498007.The investigation on which Basic Color Terms was based used native speakers of twenty languages who resided in the San Francisco Bay Area, supplementing this limited field study with a literature search on seventy-eight additional languages. The synchronic results were that languages varied in numbers of basic color terms, from a minimum of two terms (Papuan Dani) to a (probable) maximum of eleven, Russian and Hungarian being possible exceptions; but no matter how many basic color terms languages might have, their foci reliably tended to cluster in relatively narrow regions of the array,whereas boundaries were drawn unreliably, with low consistency and consensus for any language.The World Color Survey
Color naming across languages
Visual Psychologists
The psychophysics of color
Physiological mechanisms of color vision
The neuropsychology of color
Insights gained from naming the OSA colors
Beyond the elements: investigations of hue
Color systems for cognitive research
Anthropologists and Linguists
Establishing basic color terms: measures and techniques
Color shift: evolution of English color terms from brightness to hue
Two observations on culture contact and the Japanese color nomenclature system
Skewing and darkening: dynamics of the Cool category
Genes, opsins, neurons, and color categories: closing the gaps
Dissenting Voices
It's not really red, green, yellow, blue: an inquiry into perceptual color space
The linguistics of"color"
Closing thoughts