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Russian speakers get the blues - being-human Export

New Scientist (1 May 2007)

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The language you speak can affect how you see the world, a new study of colour perception indicates. Native speakers of Russian which lacks a single word for "blue" discriminated between light and dark blues differently from their English-speaking counterparts, researchers found.


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