Categorisation of Colour Terms Using New Validation Tools: A Case Study and Implications.

ABSTRACT: This article elaborates on the results of a field experiment conducted among speakers of the Chakali language, spoken in northern Ghana. In the original study, the Color-aid Corporation Chart was used to perform the focal task in which consultants were asked to point at a single colour tile on the chart. However, data from the focal task could not be analysed since the Color-aid tiles had not yet been converted into numerical values set forth by the Commission internationale de l'éclairage (CIE). In this study, the full set of 314 Color-aid tiles were measured for chromaticity and converted into the CIE values at the Daylight Laboratory of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. This article presents the conversion methodology and makes the results of the measurements, which ar

SUBMITTER: Arbab S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5937630 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature