alleryBrown and Lenneberg tested linguistic relativity using which domain?
AColour terms and recall
BCounting and arithmetic
CMusical pitch and tone
DFacial expression naming
Answer & Solution
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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