According to the hypothesis of linguistic determinism:
A) people are born with an innate ability to learn language.
B) the harder you work at learning language, the less payoff there will be.
C) language predisposes us to interpret the world in certain ways.
D) what can be said in one language can be said in another.

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The hypothesis of linguistic determinism suggests that the structure and vocabulary of one's language shape one's perception and categorization of the world. Therefore, it posits that language predisposes individuals to see the world in certain ways.

According to the Hypothesis of Linguistic Determinism