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2. Category:Linguistic theories and hypotheses - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "Linguistic theories and hypotheses" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. ... Babble hypothesis; Language bioprogram theory;

3. Linguistic relativity - Wikipedia

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   The strong hypothesis of linguistic relativity, now referred to as linguistic determinism, is that language determines thought and that linguistic categories limit and restrict cognitive categories. This was a claim by some earlier linguists pre-World War II; [ 3 ] since then it has fallen out of acceptance by contemporary linguists.

4. Linguistic determinism - Wikipedia

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   The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis branches out into two theories: linguistic determinism and linguistic relativity. Linguistic determinism is viewed as the stronger form – because language is viewed as a complete barrier, a person is stuck with the perspective that the language enforces – while linguistic relativity is perceived as a weaker form of the theory because language is discussed as a ...

5. Language and thought - Wikipedia

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   The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis in linguistics states that the grammatical structure of a mother language influences the way we perceive the world. The hypothesis has been largely abandoned by linguists as it has found very limited experimental support, at least in its strong form, linguistic determinism.

6. John A. Lucy - Wikipedia

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   John Lucy is a modern proponent of the linguistic relativity hypothesis. He has argued for a weak version of this hypothesis as a result of his comparative studies between the grammars of English and Mayan Yucatec. [5]

7. Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate - Wikipedia

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   The similarity between the acquisition of these terms in children and in language vocabularies was assumed to be comparable, since even in current notions of the B&K hypothesis the evolutionary order of color terms is thought to be based on universals of neurophysiology. While some studies in neurophysiology have shown greater salience for the ...