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Basic Color Term Lexicalization across Sign Languages
- Sign Language Studies
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 63, Summer 1989
- pp. 145-152
- 10.1353/sls.1989.0021
- Article
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Examination of the lexicalization of basic color terms in 10 different sign languages from 7 different sign language groups suggests that for naming colors sign languages follow universal patterns not dependent upon the channel of language expression and reception.