Toward a universalism Paul Kay 3308 Psycholinguistics
Berlin and Kay (1969) Naming experiments: a universal pattern in colour naming of different languages.
Universalism (nativism) What mechanisms could underlie universalism of colour categories according to nativists? (a)REGULARITY in human early visual percept ion, especially the opponent character of col our vision (Kay and McDaniel, 1978) AND in the neural coding of the brain (Durham, 199 1). (b) GENETIC coding of colour categories (Shepard, 1992).