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Linguistic Relativity

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Linguistic relativity is the position that the language a person speaks influences how they think about the world.

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Speakers of languages with more basic color terms discriminate those colors somewhat faster.

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Strong versions holding that language determines thought are not supported. Weak influence effects are.

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