A famous lecturer argues that because the Hopi Indians have
only two nouns for things that fly, one for birds and another for nonbirds, the Hopi MUST interpret all flying things in terms of these two nouns. This argument is based on _____
a) the idealized prototype construct.
b) bottom-up processing.
c) deep structure elaboration.
d) the linguistic relativity hypothesis.
Answer: d
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