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Wadzanai

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on: Jun 20, 2018
A psycholinguist conducts an experiment with a group of participants from a small village in Asia and another from a small village in South America. She asked the groups to describe the bands of color they saw in a rainbow and found they reported the same number of bands as their language possessed primary color words. These results
 
  a. support the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
  b. contradict the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
  c. support the word frequency effect.
  d. contradict the word frequency effect.

Question 2

The states that the nature of a culture's language can affect the way people think.
 
  a. interactionist approach
  b. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
  c. given-new contract
  d. cooperative principle


chreslie

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

b


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