David Bimler
List of John Benjamins publications in which David Bimler is involved.
2026 The green-blue border does not depend on the number of blues in a language: Evidence from cross-linguistic colour-naming data Progress in Colour Studies: Colour Expression and Cognition, Biggam, Carole P., Domicele Jonauskaite, Mari Uusküla and Dimitris Mylonas (eds.), pp. 113–126 | Chapter
Among languages that recognise different categories for ‘blue’ and ‘green’ in their colour lexicons, some further partition ‘blue’ according to lightness. We asked whether this subdivision would affect the ‘blue’/‘green’ boundary. We identified this boundary in seven European languages, using a… read more
2018 Chapter 12. Divergence and shared conceptual organization: A Points-of-View analysis of colour listing data from fourteen European languages Progress in Colour Studies: Cognition, language and beyond, MacDonald, Lindsay W., Carole P. Biggam and Galina V. Paramei (eds.), pp. 380–396 | Chapter
To study associations among colour terms, we asked speakers of fourteen European languages to list terms in the order that they came to mind and converted each list into an array of “adjacencies”. Analysis of these pointed to possible differences among languages in the cognitive organization of… read more
2014 Personality and gender-schemata contributions to colour preferences Colour Studies: A broad spectrum, Anderson, Wendy, Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough and Christian Kay (eds.), pp. 240–257 | Article
A gender difference in color preference has been repeatedly reported among English speakers, with a secondary preference among females for pink-purple colors, modulating a primary preference from both sexes for “cool” over “warm” hues. However, this group difference leaves much individual variation… read more
2011 Universal trends and specific deviations: Multidimensional scaling of colour terms from the World Color Survey New Directions in Colour Studies, Biggam, Carole P., Carole Hough, Christian Kay and David R. Simmons (eds.), pp. 13–26 | Article
Some trends are well-established across the 110 languages surveyed in the World Color Survey (WCS): colour terms are not distributed arbitrarily through ‘colour space’, and, of all possible combinations of terms within a single language, only a few are encountered. WCS data were analyzed to examine… read more
2006 Re-assessing perceptual diagnostics for observers with diverse retinal photopigment genotypes Progress in Colour Studies: Volume II. Psychological aspects, Pitchford, Nicola and Carole P. Biggam (eds.), pp. 13–33 | Article