Which of the following was cited by Whorf as evidence in support of the linguistic determinism hypothesis?
A) The generic pronoun "he" is just as likely to trigger images of women as of men.
B) People with no words for colors can still perceive color differences.
C) The Hopi cannot readily think about the past because their language has no past tense for verbs.
D) Chimpanzees can use signs and gestures to communicate with other members of their own species.

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Whorf used the example of the Hopi language lacking a past tense to support the idea that language shapes the way people think about time and the past. Whorf argued that because the Hopi do not have a specific grammatical marker for the past, they have a fundamentally different concept and experience of time than speakers of languages that do have a past tense.

Which of the Following Was Cited by Whorf as Evidence