纳西语颜色认知关系研究

A Study of the Relationship Between Color Cognition and Naxi Color Terms

张积家;刘丽红;陈曦;和秀梅 · This paper focuses on the relationship of color cognition and color terms in Naxi people. The experiment shows： Naxi people took more time to distigush blue and green. Compared to the subjects of Han people, the time that the Naxi people subjects took to recognize blue and green was longer, and the correct grades that Naxi people subjects obtained was lower. The whole study indicated that undistinguished blue and green in Naxi language affected the Naxi peoples＇ perception and memory of blue and green, and proved that color terms had important effects on the color cognition., 2008

摘要 · Abstract

This study tests whether Naxi's interchangeable use of 'blue' and 'green' (e.g., 'blue sky' called 'green sky') affects color cognition, using linguistic-relativity theory as its framework. Across three experiments comparing bilingual Naxi and Han participants — similarity judgment, categorization learning, and recognition memory — Naxi participants consistently showed significantly longer response times, lower accuracy, and lower confidence than Han participants distinguishing blue from green, though gaps in mean accuracy were often small. The authors argue this supports color terms shaping perception and memory rather than merely reflecting universal categories, noting that because Naxi participants are Naxi-Chinese bilinguals they can still distinguish blue from green, just more slowly and less reliably than Han speakers — unlike monolingual Tarahumara speakers reported as wholly unable to. Findings are situated within the categorical-perception literature (Whorf, Heider, Ozgen, Harnad, Goldstone, Roberson & Davidoff).

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