A woman attends a lecture on the relationship between language and thought given by Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf. She would most likely hear them express the hypothesis that
a. there are cross-linguistic differences in thought.
b. language and thought are not related.
c. language processes are primarily learned, while thought processes are primarily inborn.
d. each member of a language community thinks very differently from every other member of that same community.
Answer: a. there are cross-linguistic differences in thought.
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