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Which of these claims related to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is valid?
a. we can perceive phenomena, events, objects, and ideas more easily when a lexicon to describe them is readily available b. we are prisoners of the language we speak, incapable of perceiving small distinctions in color, for example, without labels that identify the color differences c. having a large vocabulary for a specific phenomenon, event, or object reflects the significance a speech community places on these d. both a and c |
d. both a and c
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Which of the following statements about the abstracting process is accurate?
a. It is a process of selective perception b. The first step in the abstracting process is our sense experience of the physical world c. The verbal aspects of abstracting involve description, inference, and sense experience d. both a and b |
d. both a and b
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Phonology is
a. the understanding of words in context b. the organization of time c. the part of grammar that describes how morphemes are constructed d. the study of how we find order within the apparent chaos of speech sounds |
d. the study of how we find order within the apparent chaos of speech sounds
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