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Download full textNiyekawa-Howard, Agnes M. – 1972
The linguistic relativity hypothesis is the view that the language a person speaks influences his perception of the world. This hypothesis is frequently misunderstood to be a question of the influence of language on culture, when in reality it emphasizes the influence of language on the cognition of its speakers. This distinction between culture…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Acquisition
