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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am extremely grateful to those friends who gave generously of their time to read earlier drafts of the entire book, and whose insights and suggestions saved me from copious blunders and inspired many improvements: Jennie Barbour, Michal Deutscher, Andreas Dorschel, Avrahamit Edan, Stephen Fry, Bert Kouwenberg, Peter Matthews, Ferdinand von Mengden, Anna Morpurgo Davies, Reviel Netz, Uri Rom, Jan Hendrik Schmidt, Michael Steen, and Balazs Szendr i.

The manuscript benefited enormously from the professional scrutiny of my agent, Caroline Dawnay, and my editors, Drummond Moir, Jonathan Beck, and above all Sara Bershtel, whose incisive insertions and excisions were invaluable for navigating out of numerous cul-de-sacs and wrong turnings. I am grateful to all of them, as well as to Zoe Pagnamenta, my copy editor Roslyn Schloss, and Grigory Tovbis at Metropolitan.

I would also like to thank all those who provided helpful information or corrections, especially Sasha Aikhenvald, Mira Ariel, Eleanor Coghill, Bob Dixon, David Fleck, Luca Grillo, Kristina Henschke, Yaron Matras, Robert Meekings, John Mollon, Jan Erik Olsen, Jan Schnupp, Eva Schultze-Berndt, Kriszta Szendr i, Thomas Widlok, Gabor Zemplen.

Most of all, I am grateful to Janie Steen, whose help cannot be quantified, and without whom the book would never have happened.

G.D., April 2010

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

COLOR IMAGES

1. Holmgren color blindness test: courtesy of the College of Optometrists, London

2. Rainbow over trees © Pekka Parviainen / Science Photo Library

3. Field of poppies © Andrzej Tokarski / Alamy

4, 5. Color systems: Martin Lubikowski

6. Berlin and Kay set: Hale Color Consultants, courtesy of Nick Hale

7. Japanese traffic light hues: see note

8. Russian blues: Winawer et al. 2007 (adapted by Martin Lubikowski)

9. Circle of squares: Gilbert et al. 2006 (adapted by Martin Lubikowski)

10. Colors in Chinese: Tan et al. 2008 (adapted by Martin Lubikowski)

11. The visible spectrum © Universal Images Group Limited / Alamy

12. Sensitivity cones: Martin Lubikowski

BLACK AND WHITE IMAGES

train crash in Lagerlunda: Swedish Railway Museum

W. H. R. Rivers: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge

Edward Sapir: Florence Hendershot

Franz Boas: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Roman Jakobson: Peter Cunningham

George Stubbs’s “Kongouro”: New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

Levinson 2004 (adapted by Martin Lubikowski)

Martin Lubikowski

Cognitive Science Lab, VC Riverside (adapted by Martin Lubikowski)

INDEX

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abstract vocabulary

Academie francaise

Account of the Voyages (Cook)

acquired characteristics

belief in vertical transmission of

inheritance of

adult language learners

African languages