Humberto Moreira
List of John Benjamins publications for which Humberto Moreira plays a role.
Articles
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. 59–82 | 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
2011 Red-Green dichromats’ use of basic
colour terms New Directions in Colour Studies, Biggam, Carole P., Carole Hough, Christian Kay and David R. Simmons (eds.), pp. 293–308 | Article
We describe Red-Green dichromats’ use of basic colour terms and compare this with naming errors predicted by metameric equivalence derived from confusion lines in CIE (International Commission on Illumination) coordinates. After briefly reviewing previous work, the results from two tasks –… read more