The Language of the Inuit in Canada Has Many Different

question 106

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

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