Western Ghana Color Naming

This collection contains written texts of surveys collected following World Color Survey (WCS) protocol, with the exception that unlike the WCS, speakers responded freely to the stimulus without restricting responses to basic color terms. (Two speakers in 2017 completed the task using a restricted set of color terms, strictly following the WCS protocol, but speakers struggled to provide any responses for a large number of chips, prompting the switch to the free-naming task method.) The survey was conducted with multilingual speakers of the languages Nafaanra, Twi, and English. There will ultimately be four basic language paradigms in this dataset varied on language used in task and participant multilingualism. The basic paradigms are: Task language: Nafaanra; Participant: Multilingual (Twi and/or English) Task language: Twi; Participant: Multilingual (Nafaanra and English) Task language: Twi; Participant: Multilingual (English only)* Task language: English; Participant: Multilingual (Nafaanra and/or Twi) Currently available data include datasets collected in 2017 and 2018, both with multilingual Nafaanra speakers in Nafaanra. Twi and English data will be made available at a future date.