Language and Color Perception: Evidence From Mongolian and Chinese Speakers

The present research contributes to the debates in cognitive sentence on the relationship between language and perception by comparing Mongolian and Chinese speakers’ color perception. Chinese (Mandarin) and Mongolian color terms divide the blue spectrum differently but the green spectrum similarly. In Mongolian, light blue (“qinker”) and dark blue (“huhe”) are strictly distinct, while both light green and dark green are described as one word,...