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  1. Unlike spatial deixis, the linguistic study of time remains sparse in anthropology. Yet the famous Sapir–Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity was initially popularized through the alleged absence of Hopi verb tenses (now disproved).

    • Phonology

      Phonology. William J. Idsardi, Philip J. Monahan, in...

  2. Jul 26, 2016 · This article outlines the history of empirical research on linguistic relativity, surveys current research, and appraises critically the trends of the past decade, highlighting conceptual and methodological issues.

    • John A. Lucy
    • 2016
  3. We identify seven categories of hypotheses about the possible effects of language on thought across a wide range of domains, including motion, color, spatial relations, number, and false belief understanding.

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  4. This chapter presents not a linguistic theory or model but a body of research falling under the cover term linguistic relativity. Most generally, linguistic relativity studies investigate possible effects of natural language on purportedly non-linguistic cognition.

  5. The chapter begins with a historical background of linguistic relativity. It then discusses the requirements for linguistic-relativity research, linguistic relativity and mainstream linguistics, language effect, language development, and domains of research.

  6. Oct 15, 2020 · Empirical evidence for linguistic relativity is reviewed from the perspectives of first language influences on cognition, including color, motion, number, time, objects, and nonlinguistic representations, and from the prism of cross-linguistic influences.

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  8. Oct 27, 2010 · We identify seven categories of hypotheses about the possible effects of language on thought across a wide range of domains, including motion, color, spatial relations, number, and false belief understanding.

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