In an Article Titled "Sex, Syntax, and Semantics," Lera Borodinsky

question 25

Multiple Choice

In an article titled "Sex, Syntax, and Semantics," Lera Borodinsky argues that your mental representations of inanimate objects like forks and frying pans are heavily dependent on the objects' grammatical gender in your native language. To which theory or concept is her argument related?

• A) norms and values
• B) countercultures
• C) polysemy
• D) the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
• E) cultural relativism

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Definitions:

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Demand Curve

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