Color term salience
American Anthropologist • Vol/Iss. 74 • Published In • Pages: 1107-1121 •
By Hays, David G., Margolis, Enid, Naroll, Raoul, Perkins, Revere Dale
Hypothesis
"The frequency of a term in a single literary language correlates strongly with the earliness of that term in Berlin and Kay's evolutionary sequence" (1118)
| Test Name | Support | Significance | Coefficient | Tail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spearman’s rank-order correlation | Supported | p<.001 | .87 | UNKNOWN |
| Variable Name | Variable Type | OCM Term(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Focal Color Term Frequency | UNKNOWN | Ethnophysics |
| Order In Evolutionary Sequence | UNKNOWN | NONE |