COMPLETE QUESTION:
A psycholinguist conducts an experiment with a group of participants from a small village in Asia and another from a small village in South America. She asked the groups to describe the bands of color they saw in a rainbow and found they reported the same number of bands as their language possessed primary color words. These results:
Group of answer choices
(a) support the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
(b) contradict the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
(c) support the word frequency effect
(d) contradict the word frequency effect
ANSWER: SUPPORT THE SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS.
EXPLANATION:
SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS is also referred to as the “linguistic determinism hypothesis”.
The hypothesis stated that language and it's structure directly influence or limit the knowledge and thinking capacities of it speakers.
Thus, the experiments underwent by the psycholinguist support SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS, since the two group of participants described the same bands of color seen in the rainbow, because their language incorporate the primary color words.
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