Paul Kay (born 1934 in

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at the

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. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of

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, transferring to the Department of Linguistics in 1982 and now working at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI). He is best known for his work with anthropologist

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on colour: '' Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution'' (1969) . More recently, he has worked in the area of

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with

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, authoring the textbook ''Construction Grammar'' (1996 manuscript). He is currently working on an extension of Construction Grammar called Sign-Based Construction Grammar, authoring a book on this topic with

Ivan Sag Ivan Andrew Sag (November 9, 1949 – September 10, 2013) was an American linguist and cognitive scientist. He did research in areas of syntax and semantics as well as work in computational linguistics. Personal life Born in Alliance, Ohio on No ...

and Laura Michaelis. Since 2005 Kay has returned to experimental testing of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and his findings show that taking into account brain lateralization allows another perspective on the debate. More specifically he proposed that "Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left". Gilbert AL, Regier T, Kay P, Ivry RB, ''Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left'', Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci 2006 January 10; 103(2): 489–494.
PNAS
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509868103

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kay, Paul 1934 births Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Living people Linguists from the United States University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society

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