Cognitive Psychologist Lera Boroditsky Has Reported That Aboriginal Children from Cape

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Cognitive psychologist Lera Boroditsky has reported that aboriginal children from Cape York, Australia, can accurately point to any compass direction as early as age five, while most Americans cannot do this even as adults. Boroditsky believes this is due to the exclusive use of absolute directional references within the language spoken by the aboriginals of Cape York as opposed to the relative directional references used in the English language, which lends support to the

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

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