A famous lecturer argues that because the Hopi Indians have only two nouns for things that fly, one for birds and another for nonbirds, the Hopi MUST interpret all flying things in terms of these two nouns. This argument is based on ________.
A) the idealized prototype construct
B) bottom-up processing
C) deep structure elaboration
D) the linguistic relativity hypothesis

Question

A famous lecturer argues that because the Hopi Indians have only two nouns for things that fly, one for birds and another for nonbirds, the Hopi MUST interpret all flying things in terms of these two nouns. This argument is based on ________.
A) the idealized prototype construct
B) bottom-up processing 
C) deep structure elaboration
D) the linguistic relativity hypothesis

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The argument made by the famous lecturer is based on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, which suggests that language influences thought and perception. The Hopi language having only two nouns for flying things is used to support the hypothesis that the Hopi people interpret all flying things based on these two categories.

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