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Publication details [#55519]

Athanasopoulos, Panos, Ljubica Damjanovic and Andrea Krajciova. 2011. Representation of colour concepts in bilingual cognition: The case of Japanese blues. Bilingualism 14 (1) : 9–17.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | categorization | color terminology | language use | representational structure

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study examines cognitive colour processing in Japanese–English bilinguals, and in particular how the frequency of Japanese and English language use affects sensitivity to the blue/light blue distinction, as Japanese possess an additional monolexemic term -mizuiro- for ‘light blue’.