Alexandra Grandison

List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexandra Grandison plays a role.

Articles

Mehta, Beejal, Paul T. Sowden and Alexandra Grandison 2018 Chapter 18. Does deuteranomaly place children at a disadvantage in educational settings? A systematic literature reviewProgress in Colour Studies: Cognition, language and beyond, MacDonald, Lindsay W., Carole P. Biggam and Galina V. Paramei (eds.), pp. 341–355 | Chapter
A review was conducted to explore possible consequences of deuteranomaly, a specific type of congenital colour vision deficiency (CVD), for children in education. Electronic searches of five databases were performed. Key search terms included: child*, colo?r vision, colo?r blind*, colour def*,… read more
Grandison, Alexandra, Ian R.L. Davies and Paul T. Sowden 2014 The evolution of GRUE: Evidence for a new colour term in the language of the HimbaColour Studies: A broad spectrum, Anderson, Wendy, Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough and Christian Kay (eds.), pp. 53–66 | Article
The hue spectrum is a continuum of light, yet we perceive it categorically. The categories used to describe this continuum vary across the world’s languages and there are marked differences in the numbers of colour categories and the locations of category boundaries. For example, the green–blue… read more