The linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that:
A) one's language determines the pattern of one's thinking and view of the world.
B) one's thinking and view of the world determines the structure of one's language.
C) we decide which objects belong to a concept according to what is most probable or sensible, given the facts at hand.
D) perception of surface structure precedes deep structure in understanding a sentence.
Answer: A
Rationale: Linguistic relativity (or the Whorfian hypothesis) is the theory that the language we encounter and use determines how we understand the world.
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