Size of color lexicon: interaction of cultural and biological factors

Speech communities further from the equator will be positively associated with having six or more basic color terms (364)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Mann-Whitney U-Test	Supported	p<.01	`UNKNOWN`	One-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Having Six Or More Basic Color Terms	Dependent	Vocabulary
Latitude	Independent	Location

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Berlin, Brent	1969	"In addition to the fact that the stages of complexity of color vocabulary have a temporal ordering, there appears to be a positive correlation between general cultural complexity and complexity of color vocabulary" (16)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Hays, David G.	1972	"Ethnographers use the early terms in the Berlin-Kay list in almost every societal description that deals with color; they tend to use later terms in fewer descriptions, and only in desciptions that also use some of the early terms" (1118)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1978	Controlling on social complexity, latitude will be related to number of basic color terms (366).	`UNKNOWN`	0	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Hays, David G.	1972	The number of color terms in a society's language is strongly correlated with its level of social complexity (1118)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bolton, Ralph	1979	The salience of color categories in folk tales is positively associated with the evolutionary sequence proposed by Berlin and Kay (1969) (233).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author