Color term salience

The number of color terms in a society's language is strongly correlated with its level of social complexity (1118)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Phi coefficient	Supported	p<.01	.60	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Number Of Focal Color Terms	`UNKNOWN`	Vocabulary, Ethnophysics
Social Complexity	`UNKNOWN`	`NONE`

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Ember, Melvin	1978	Controlling on social complexity, latitude will be related to number of basic color terms (366).	`UNKNOWN`	0	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Berlin, Brent	1969	"In addition to the fact that the stages of complexity of color vocabulary have a temporal ordering, there appears to be a positive correlation between general cultural complexity and complexity of color vocabulary" (16)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1978	Controlling on latitude, social complexity will be related to number of basic colorations (366).	`UNKNOWN`	0	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Hays, David G.	1972	"Ethnographers use the early terms in the Berlin-Kay list in almost every societal description that deals with color; they tend to use later terms in fewer descriptions, and only in desciptions that also use some of the early terms" (1118)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1978	Speech communities further from the equator will be positively associated with having six or more basic color terms (364)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author