alleryPinker says people think in which meta-language?
ABasic English
BPidgin Hindi
CMentalese
DEsperanto
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Mentalese
1. Pinker argues that people do not think in the natural language they speak.
2. He says they think in a meta-language that precedes natural language, called mentalese.
3. The other options are real languages, not the meta-language he proposes.
_Source: Wikipedia, Linguistic relativity, Steven Pinker_
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