A 2003 Study Comparing How Korean- and English-Speaking Children and Adults

question 19

Multiple Choice

A 2003 study comparing how Korean- and English-speaking children and adults:

• A) demonstrates that the Whorfian Hypothesis does not hold true when applied to semantics.
• B) supports the application of the Whorfian Hypothesis to how special distinctions are made in language.
• C) compared how children and adults described tight-fitting containment, or putting letter shapes into a puzzle.
• D) indicated that children used the same terms to describe tight-fitting containment across cultures.

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