When Given a Set of Cards Depicting a Series of Events

question 423

Multiple Choice

When given a set of cards depicting a series of events, English speakers arranged the cards from left to right, speakers of Hebrew usually arranged the cards from right to left, and speakers of Kuuk Thaayorre, the language of the Cape York Australian aboriginals, used a temporal sequence from east to west in arranging the cards. These findings lend support to the

• A)semantic differential theory.
• B)transformational rule of language.
• C)law of linguistic effect.
• D)linguistic relativity hypothesis.

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