If asked to arrange a set of cards that depict a series of events,English-speaking persons use a left-to-right sequence,while speakers of Hebrew would arrange the cards from right to left like Hebrew is written.English-speakers also tend to think of the future as being "ahead" of them and the past "behind" them,while speakers of the South American language Aymara see the past as being "ahead" of them and the future as "behind" them.Findings,such as these,lend support to the
A) linguistic relativity hypothesis.
B) law of linguistic effect.
C) temporal sequence effect.
D) semantic differential hypothesis.

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The linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that the language a person speaks affects how they think and perceive the world. The examples given in the question support this idea, as speakers of different languages had different ways of arranging and conceptualizing series of events. The other answer choices are not supported by the examples given in the question.

If Asked to Arrange a Set of Cards That Depict