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
ANS: d
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