The Strict Version of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis Is NOT

question 262

Multiple Choice

The strict version of the linguistic relativity hypothesis is NOT correct.What evidence was presented in your text that supports this point?

• A) Simpler language structures for a concept makes the concept easier to learn.
• B) The number of colour words in a language does not impact our ability to discriminate different colours.
• C) Languages that have a word for a specific social situation have a clearer understanding of that specific social situation.
• D) People who are bilingual are able to think about the same concept in different ways.

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