Basic color terms were originally defined by Berlin and Kay based on linguistic definitions and refer to a subset of color expressions that are universal across languages. In this paper, we investigate and report that basic color terms demonstrate much stronger statistical characteristics that differentiate them from other color words. We introduce a probabilistic interpretation of color naming...

This study is to determine how bilingualism could influence the list of Persian basic color terms and their order. Using a monolingual Persian and a bilingual Kurd sample students, and a color list task, it is assumed that bilingualism could change the ordering of the non-basic color terms in the second language, but not the basic ones. Another assumption is that, the old usual methods for obta...

We suggest a new color distance based on two observations. First, perceptual color differences were designed to be used to compare very similar colors. They do not capture human perception for medium and large color differences well. Thresholding was proposed to solve the problem for large color differences, i.e. two totally different colors are always the same distance apart. We show that thre...