In a study of how language affects one's thoughts, individuals who spoke different languages were asked to arrange a set of cards that depicted a series of events, such as a meal being cooked and eaten. Which of the following is a FALSE statement regarding the findings of this study?
a. The subjects who spoke Hebrew usually arranged the cards from right to left.
b. Speakers of Kuuk Thaayorre, the language of the Cape York Australian aboriginals, used a temporal sequence from east to west in arranging the cards.
c. All the subjects regardless of the language they spoke arranged the cards from left to right.
d. The findings of this study lend support to the linguistic relativity hypothesis.
C
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