Blue, green or 'nol'?

(Northwestern University) New Northwestern University research shows that even in infants too young to speak, the object categories infants form and their predictions about objects' behavior, are sculpted by the names we use to describe them. As English speakers, we might describe the blue lake or the green grass in a natural scene. But speakers of Berinmo, an indigenous language of Papua New Guinea, have a single term for the colors we describe as blues and greens.

Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 18, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news