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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:72.0pt;color:#1F497D">David, I have no hard data, but with my experience from German (my L1) and a long history of misunderstandings, I am not surprised at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:72.0pt;color:#1F497D">Hartmut<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Professor emeritus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:72.0pt;color:windowtext">Fra:</span></b><span style="font-size:72.0pt;color:windowtext"> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org>
<b>På vegne af </b>David Gil<br>
<b>Sendt:</b> 7. april 2019 23:29<br>
<b>Til:</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br>
<b>Emne:</b> [Lingtyp] query: "blue"/"green" and dialectal variation in English<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:72.0pt">Dear all,</span><span style="font-size:72.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:72.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:72.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:72.0pt">I've recently become aware of dialectal variation within English with respect to the denotation of the colour terms "blue" and "green"; specifically, the extent to which they apply to intermediate
colours such as cyan, turquoise and teal. I'm currently running an informal survey on google forms (see link below); the results are still coming in, but I'm already observing interesting dialectal variation. For example, in stimulus 8, showing a shade of
teal, subjects are presented with a forced choice task: is it "blue" or "green"? The percentage of subjects who chose "blue" range from 19% in Australian English (23 subjects) to 65% in USA English (97 subjects), with other countries occupying intermediate
positions on the scale.</span><span style="font-size:72.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:72.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:72.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:72.0pt">My question: has anybody described this kind of variation within English dialects before? It's the world's most studied language, and a very popular domain of investigation, and yet a Google
search didn't come up with any references to precisely this kind of variation. Any comments related to this topic would be appreciated.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:72.0pt"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1e5nvUB8B3OdUXo1Rat7xrwrxj4H_qgJcvpAkNcHIj8c/edit">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1e5nvUB8B3OdUXo1Rat7xrwrxj4H_qgJcvpAkNcHIj8c/edit</a></span><span style="font-size:72.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:72.0pt">Thanks,</span><span style="font-size:72.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:72.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:72.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:72.0pt">David</span><span style="font-size:72.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<pre><span style="font-size:72.0pt">-- <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:72.0pt">David Gil<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:72.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:72.0pt">Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:72.0pt">Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:72.0pt">Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:72.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:72.0pt">Email: <a href="mailto:gil@shh.mpg.de">gil@shh.mpg.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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