The language Dani is spoken in the Amazon rainforest. The language has just two color words, one to refer to darkly colored objects and one to refer to lightly colored objects. Some researchers have argued that the Dani would not be able to perceive the entire color spectrum because the language lacks words for all the colors. This view is referred to as:
a. linguistic adaptation
b. cognitive linguistics
c. linguistic grammar
d. linguistic relativity
D
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