alleryBoroditsky's 2003 study compared speakers on which feature?
AVerb tense systems
BColour vocabulary
CGrammatical gender
DCounting words
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Grammatical gender
1. Spanish and German speakers described objects using adjectives.
2. The two languages have different grammatical gender systems.
3. Tense, colour and counting were not the feature compared.
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