摘要：The domain of colors has often attracted attention of researchers looking for evidence for the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and influence of language on color perception has been confirmed in many studies. The present paper aims, on the one hand, at providing further evidence for the effect on a healthy sample, and, on the other, at extending research to an aphasic sample affected by color anomia, a disorder that has never been dealt in the literature about the topic. A test based on color similarity judgments was administered to both samples. Speakers were either native speakers of Italian or of German. The colors of the test belonged to the green and blue area of color space, and judgments on the green/blue boundary and on the light blue/dark blue boundary were analyzed. The former boundary exists in both languages, while the latter is only marked in Italian. Results provided supporting evidence for a Whorfian effect in the domain of colors. However, this does not contradict the theory about the existence of universal basic color terms. Furthermore, the need for a more qualitative – rather than quantitative – approach to data is stressed.
