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CORALGRILL2014

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By employing the comparative method, linguistic anthropologists have discovered that learning a new language consists mostly of learning new labels for the same things.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 2

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, although never formulated as a hypothesis by either Edward Sapir or Benjamin Lee Whorf, has two forms: Strong Whorf and Weaker Whorf. In Strong Whorf, language is compared to a:
 
  a. room.
  b. prison.
  c. road.
  d. ocean.



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Answer to Question 1

False (p 43)

Answer to Question 2

b



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