Anna Melnikova
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anna Melnikova is involved.
Article
2018 Chapter 4. Spanish basic colour categories are 11 or 12 depending on the dialect Progress in Colour Studies: Cognition, language and beyond, MacDonald, Lindsay W., Carole P. Biggam and Galina V. Paramei (eds.), pp. 72–95 | Chapter
A colour-term elicitation task was used to estimate basic colour terms (BCTs) in three Spanish dialects. In Castilian (spoken in Spain) and Mexican, eleven BCTs were identified, compared to twelve in Uruguayan, including celeste “sky blue”. The six primary BCTs and three derived BCTs appeared… read more