Thirty bilingual anti thirty monolingual university students were required to name twenty hues selected at equidistant points around the color circle. They were also required to categorize them in a button pressing task. While there were no group differences in the latter task the bilinguals were significantly slower than the monolinguals in the naming task. This was discussed in the broader context of linguistic information processing.
Some sex differences were noted in the frequency of use of non-basic terms but no support was found for the claim that "turquoise" should be viewed as a basic term along with the eleven suggested by Berlin and Kay (1969).