Scholars doing "the new ethnography" argued that the categorization system encapsulated in a language, and the way a language categorized items:
a. determined the mental maturity of the people who used it.
b. was more sophisticated among "civilized" peoples.
c. was a model, or mental map, that speakers had for that particular part of the world.
d. could help elders in that culture to resist the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
d
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