The Language of the Inuit in Canada Has Many Different

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Multiple Choice

The language of the Inuit in Canada has many different terms for frozen white flakes of precipitation,for which we use the term snow._____ argued that,because of this,the Inuit _____.

• A)Benjamin Whorf;perceive snow differently than do English speakers
• B)Noam Chomsky;have a fundamentally different language acquisition device than do English speakers
• C)Eleanor Rosch;think about snow in a fundamentally different way than do English speakers
• D)Allen Gardner;form emotional associations with snow more easily than do English speakers

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