LLNG 115 HW #6 LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY

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

A. Will automatically consider what an English speaker would call blue and purple to be the same color.

B. Might consider what an English speaker would call blue and purple to be the same color depending on other factors, such as his/her career.

C. Won't consider what an English speaker would call blue and purple to be the same color.

D. Will only consider what an English speaker would call blue and purple to be the same color if the colors are very similar.

A. Will automatically consider what an English speaker would call blue and purple to be the same color.

The Navajo speaking children in Carroll and Casagrande 1958:

A. Behaved the same as the English speakers from the Navajo Nation, but not Boston.

B. Behaved the same as the English speakers from both the Navajo Nation and Boston.

C. Behaved the same as the English speakers from Boston, but not those from the Navajo Nation.

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

C. Behaved the same as the English speakers from Boston, but not those from the Navajo Nation.

Edward Sapir was

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

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

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

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

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

T/F

Russia uses distinct words for light blue and dark blue.

True

T/F

Arabic, in addition to a generic word for camel, has a number of more specific words such as "female camel."

True

T/F

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.

True

T/F

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.

False

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

A. McWhorter 2014

B. Carroll and Casagrande 1958

C. Lucy 1992

D. Wayne and Parker 1998

C. Lucy 1992

T/F

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.

True

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

A. Yucatec Mayan has classifiers

B. plural marking in Yucatec Mayan is optional

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

D. Yucatec Mayan uses a different set of number words than English

B. plural marking in Yucatec Mayan is optional

T/F

A language with a relative frame of reference would say that my computer is to the north of me on my desk. (Assume for this question that my computer really is to the north of me.)

False

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A speaker of a relative frame of reference language will never use compass directions as well as a speaker of an absolute frame of reference language, no matter their experiences (ex: an expert at orienteering).

False

Boroditsky and Gaby 2010 found that speakers of absolute frame of reference languages

A. arranged chronological pictures (ex: a person aging) from left to right

B. arranged chronological pictures (ex: a person aging) from east to west

C. recreated the order of set of figurines in a mirror image of the originals after turning 180 degrees because they were orienting them left to right.

D. recreated the order of set of figurines exactly the same as the originals after turning 180 degrees because they were orienting them west to east.

B. arranged chronological pictures (ex: a person aging) from east to west

Levinson 1997 is significant because it demonstrated that

A. vocabulary differences from one language to another have no affect on perception

B. grammar differences from one language to another affect perception

C. having different words in a language's vocabulary affects perception

D. the frequency with which a language uses a word -even if both languages have the word available- affects perception

D. the frequency with which a language uses a word -even if both languages have the word available- affects perception