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What was later said of the Inuit 'snow' words example?Read the answer and worked solution →In Hopi, how do the two words for water differ?Read the answer and worked solution →Brown and Lenneberg tested linguistic relativity using which domain?Read the answer and worked solution →Berlin and Kay: which focal colours in three-term languages?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did Berlin and Kay's colour findings challenge relativity?Read the answer and worked solution →Lenneberg faulted Whorf for never doing what?Read the answer and worked solution →What does Brown's weak formulation predict?Read the answer and worked solution →Chomsky formulated which theory of shared language structure?Read the answer and worked solution →Pinker says people think in which meta-language?Read the answer and worked solution →What is Pinker's view on thought and language?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Russian psychologist wrote a 1934 work on thought and language?Read the answer and worked solution →In which dialogue does Plato link ideas of reality to language?Read the answer and worked solution →For St. Augustine, language was like what?Read the answer and worked solution →How do Guugu Yimithirr speakers describe spatial positions?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 1987 book by Lakoff reappraised linguistic relativity?Read the answer and worked solution →Boroditsky's 2003 study compared speakers on which feature?Read the answer and worked solution →In spatial time metaphors, longer distances link with what?Read the answer and worked solution →Mandarin speakers can refer to earlier events with which direction?Read the answer and worked solution →A 2013 study linked futureless languages to what?Read the answer and worked solution →Slobin named which kind of cognitive process?Read the answer and worked solution →Bowerman found infants develop which skills largely without language?Read the answer and worked solution →What does a domain-centered study do?Read the answer and worked solution →Yucatec Mayan speakers tended to classify objects by what?Read the answer and worked solution →English speakers more often did what when describing accidents?Read the answer and worked solution →Kashima and Kashima said explicit 'you' and 'I' reinforce what?Read the answer and worked solution →Herder and Humboldt saw language as the expression of what?Read the answer and worked solution →In Fishman's 'third kind' of Whorfianism, language is what?Read the answer and worked solution →What do most linguists hold today about language and thought?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did relativity fall out of favour among linguists in the 1960s?Read the answer and worked solution →Strømnes compared work accidents in factories of which two countries?Read the answer and worked solution →

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What was later said of the Inuit 'snow' words example?

  1. It was proven by lab experiments
  2. It came from a Hopi dictionary
  3. It was contested as a misrepresentation
  4. It was confirmed by Berlin and Kay
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Correct answer: C. It was contested as a misrepresentation

1. Whorf's example claimed a large number of words for snow in Inuit languages. 2. The example was later contested as a misrepresentation. 3. It was not proven in labs, taken from Hopi, or confirmed by Berlin and Kay, who studied colour terms. _Source: Wikipedia, Linguistic relativity, Several terms for a single concept_

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In Hopi, how do the two words for water differ?

  1. Water for drinking versus water for washing
  2. Rain falling from sky versus river water
  3. Heated water versus water left to cool
  4. Container drinking water versus a natural body
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Correct answer: D. Container drinking water versus a natural body

1. Whorf noted that Hopi uses two words where European languages use one for water. 2. One word means drinking water in a container and the other a natural body of water. 3. Washing, rain versus river, and temperature are not the distinction he reported. _Source: Wikipedia, Linguistic relativity, Several terms for a single concept_

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Brown and Lenneberg tested linguistic relativity using which domain?

  1. Colour terms and recall
  2. Counting and arithmetic
  3. Musical pitch and tone
  4. Facial expression naming
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Correct answer: A. Colour terms and recall

1. Brown and Lenneberg wanted a non-linguistic task they could compare with naming. 2. They designed experiments on how colours are named and remembered. 3. Counting, music and faces were not the domains of their experiments. _Source: Wikipedia, Linguistic relativity, Colour terminology_

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