According to Benjamin Lee Whorf’s hypothesis of linguistic relativity, what affects a person’s ability to think about a topic?
a. ?having a rich vocabulary on the topic
b. ?two-way interactions as an infant in the form of conversation
c. ?the number of phonemes in the language
d. ?a critical gene mutation in the FOXP-2 gene
ANSWER:
a
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