alleryWhat does the principle of linguistic relativity assert?
ALanguage influences a person's worldview
BThought forms before any language exists
CAll languages share one grammar
DCulture is set only by biology
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Language influences a person's worldview
1. Linguistic relativity links the language a person speaks to how that person sees and thinks about the world.
2. So the claim is that language influences worldview and cognition.
3. Thought existing before language, one shared grammar, or purely biological culture are not what the principle says.
_Source: Wikipedia, Linguistic relativity, Lead section_
Keep practising Unit 2C2: Language Acquisition and Linguistic Relativity
Browse all Unit 2C2: Language Acquisition and Linguistic Relativity questions for AP Psychology, or explore more Psychology topics.
Related questions
Strømnes compared work accidents in factories of which two countries?Why did relativity fall out of favour among linguists in the 1960s?What do most linguists hold today about language and thought?In Fishman's 'third kind' of Whorfianism, language is what?Herder and Humboldt saw language as the expression of what?Kashima and Kashima said explicit 'you' and 'I' reinforce what?English speakers more often did what when describing accidents?Yucatec Mayan speakers tended to classify objects by what?