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    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US">Dear all,</span></p>
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        lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US">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.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>For example,
        in stimulus 8, showing a shade
        of teal, subjects are presented with a forced choice task: is it
        "blue" or "green"?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> 
        </span>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></p>
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        lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US">My question:
        has anybody described this kind of variation within English
        dialects before?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>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.<span
          style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Any comments related to
        this topic would be
        appreciated.<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
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    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1e5nvUB8B3OdUXo1Rat7xrwrxj4H_qgJcvpAkNcHIj8c/edit">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1e5nvUB8B3OdUXo1Rat7xrwrxj4H_qgJcvpAkNcHIj8c/edit</a></span></p>
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        lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US">Thanks,</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US">David</span></p>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
David Gil

Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany

Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gil@shh.mpg.de">gil@shh.mpg.de</a>
Office Phone (Germany): +49-3641686834
Mobile Phone (Indonesia): +62-81281162816

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