Hmwk 7: Linguistic Relativity Questions

According to the theory of Linguistic Determinism, a speaker of Javanese

Will automatically make fine-grained social judgments about everyone he/she meets.

Might make fine-grained social judgments about the people he/she meets depending on other factors, such as his/her career.

Won't automatically make any social judgments about the people he/she meets.

Will only make social judgments about the people he/she meets if the situation seems to require it.

Will automatically make fine-grained social judgments about everyone he/she meets.

The Navajo speaking children in Carroll and Casagrande 1958:

Behaved the same as the English speakers from the Reservation.

Behaved the same as the English speakers from Boston.

Behaved the same as both sets of English speakers from Boston and the Reservation.

Didn't behave like any of the English speakers, whether from the Reservation or Boston.

Behaved the same as the English speakers from Boston.

Edward Sapir was

a Yale professor who focused on how having different vocabularies might contribute to different world views.

a former student of linguistics who focused on how having different grammatical features might contribute to different world views.

a Yale professor who focused on how having different grammatical features might contribute to different world views.

a former student of linguistics who focused on how having different vocabularies might contribute to different world views.

a Yale professor who focused on how having different vocabularies might contribute to different world views.

Russia uses distinct words for light blue and dark blue. (T/F)

True

If you speak a language that calls both this color (blue) and this color (more purple) "blue," under lingusitic relativity, you might be inclined to say that the text of this sentence is written in only one color (in addition to black). (T/F)

True

Under the theory of linguistic relativity, a Hopi speaker wouldn't necessarily notice whether a party had happened yesterday or was happening at the moment, but they would likely consider it important whether the person telling them about the party had been to the party themselves or had heard about it from someone else. (T/F)

True

The research into the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis shows that language necessarily determines our perception of the world. For example, we don't form concepts if our language does not have a word for that concept. (T/F)

False

Which of the following investigated how Yucatec Mayan speakers perceived number?

McWhorter 2014

Carroll and Casagrande 1958

Lucy 1992

Boroditsky and Gaby 2010

Lucy 1992

Which of the following investigated how speakers of some Australian aboriginal languages visualize time?

McWhorter 2014

Carroll and Casagrande 1958

Lucy 1992

Boroditsky and Gaby 2010

Boroditsky and Gaby 2010

McWhorter 2014 found that Russian speakers categorized a blue color chip LESS consistently when their language capacity was impaired by reciting a memorized list of numbers. (T/F)

True

Yucatec Mayan speakers are hypothesized to remember number less accurately than English speakers because

Yucatec Mayan has classifiers

plural marking in Yucatec Mayan is optional

Yucatec Mayan speakers in the study were of a lower socioeconomic status than the English speakers

Yucatec Mayan uses a different set of number words than English

plural marking in Yucatec Mayan is optional

A speaker of a language who uses Absolute Frame of Reference will arrange chronological pictures

left to right

east to west because their language doesn't have words for left and right

east to west because they don't have a concept of left and right

east to west even though they have the words left and right, they just don't use them as often as cardinal direction terms

east to west even though they have the words left and right, they just don't use them as often as cardinal direction terms

A speaker of English, which uses Relative Frame of Reference, could potentially be as good/fast at identifying which way is east as a speaker of Balinese, which uses Absolute Frame of Reference, if the English speaker regularly used a map and a compass to find her way through woodland areas (for example: was a survivalist expert). (T/F)

True