Dr. Ebert believes that language directly influences how we view our world. As such, a native English speaker who learns Spanish as an adult can never fully understand the world the same way that a native Spanish speaker does. Dr. Ebert’s views are most compatible with the ____
a. ?strong form of the Whorfian hypothesis
b. weak form of the Whorfian hypothesis?
c. poverty of stimulus argument?
d. any form of the linguistic relativity hypothesis?
ANSWER:
a
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