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Research with people who were bilingual in English and Chinese found that they employed stereotypes unique to the Chinese culture when reading passages written in Chinese but not when the passages were written in English. This suggests that the language used can ____.
 
  a. influence the likelihood of identifying a particular cultural stereotype.
  b. have very little influence the speakers' impressions of the people.
 c. constrain only the ability to communicate their impressions of the people
  d. influence only speakers who have substantial preexisting bias

Question 2

Berlin and Kay (1969) found that all languages draw their basic color terms from eleven color names. This finding supports the existence of ____ in language.
 
  a. categorical relativity
  b. absolutism
 c. linguistic relativity
 d. linguistic universals



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bassamabas

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Answer to Question 1

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beccaep

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
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