alleryWhich student of Edward Sapir is seen as the primary proponent?
AHarry Hoijer
BBenjamin Whorf
CEric Lenneberg
DFranz Boas
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Benjamin Whorf
1. Sapir's student Benjamin Lee Whorf published observations on how language differences affect cognition.
2. That work made him the primary proponent of the idea.
3. Hoijer named the hypothesis, Lenneberg criticised it, and Boas was Sapir's teacher.
_Source: Wikipedia, Linguistic relativity, History_
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