Recent research on the linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that
A) the number of color categories a language has relatively little influence in how people perceive color.
B) there are no cross-cultural differences in how colors are categorized by names.
C) language has some impact on how people think about motion, time and shape.
D) people who do not have a different names for objects in their language do not have any trouble making quick discriminations between similar and not similar objects.

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Recent research on the linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that language does have some impact on how people perceive and think about motion, time, and shape. However, the number of color categories a language has may have some influence on how people perceive color, but it is relatively minor compared to the impact of culture, context, and individual experiences. Option A is partially correct, but it only discusses the impact of language on color perception, not the entire hypothesis. Option B is incorrect because there are cross-cultural differences in how colors are categorized by names. Option D is incorrect because having different names for objects in one's language can impact how easily and quickly they can discriminate between similar and not similar objects.

Recent Research on the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis Suggests That