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Linguistic Relativity

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Linguistic relativity, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, holds that the language a person speaks shapes how that person perceives and categorizes experience.

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A language marking evidence-source grammatically obliges its speakers to state how they know a thing.

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Evidence supports a shaping influence; the strength of that influence is still disputed.