COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
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Question
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chimps can learn to communicate spontaneously by using sig language
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people with no word for a certain color can still perceive that color accurately
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the Eskimo language contains a number of words for snow, whereas English only has one
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infants’ babbling contains many phonemes that do not occur in their own language and that they therefore cannot have heard
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Detailed explanation-1: -Linguistic determinism is the strong form of linguistic relativity (popularly known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis), which argues that individuals experience the world based on the structure of the language they habitually use.
Detailed explanation-2: -The linguistic determinism hypothesis is challenged by the finding that: People with no word for a certain color can still perceive that color accurately.
Detailed explanation-3: -Linguistic Determinism is a concept taken from the narrow field of analytic philosophy and postulates that human language limits and determines human thought patterns and knowledge.
Detailed explanation-4: -Proponents of linguistic determinism argue that such differences between languages influence the ways people think-perhaps the ways in which whole cultures are organized.