So far, Through the Language Glass has been enlightening. (I am on page 126, nearly done with the first part.)

The author's account of studies of how languages deal with colour starts at least a century before Berlin and Kay, and points out that their work wasn't the first to come to its conclusions, just the better known one ( Read more... )

Dude, when was Wikipedia's page on linguistic relativity and colour terms created, and how did I miss it?[1 ( Read more... )

I want a Stroop Effect T-shirt - the classic psychological experiment with names of colours written in a different colour.

Alas, I can't find a Munsell chart T-shirt. I'd imagine it might be somewhat expensive to get such a thing printed (at least, in good enough quality).

Words Affect Our Reality - On The Right. Some research done in February ' ( Read more... )

I really need to stop making animated usericons. My icon page is beginning to make me dizzy ( Read more... )

First full draft of semantics dissertation done! Nearly. I have two paragraphs that I need an article for, and only two libraries in Cambridge have the journal it's in (and neither of them are near me). So on Monday I'll get the article from Experimental Psych and finish it. Until then, I'll use this weekend to write, sketch, and work on job ( Read more... )

Dissertation's coming on reasonably well. Just passed 4400 words today, though I'm getting near to the end. At least I've got whole paragraphs about studies that I've only put in a sentence on so far, and I've still got another section, the introduction and conclusion to do - so I should manage to hit the 8,000-10,000 word criterion by the time I' ( Read more... )