Exam 14: Language, Culture, and Cognition

Rosch's research with the Dani found that:

Whereas English makes a distinction between putting things in and putting things on, Korean makes a distinction between:

Phrases that reference object coordinates, as in front of the post or to the left of her are examples of _____ spatial terms.

The strong form of the Whorf hypothesis holds that:

Berlin and Kay (1969) referred to the most representative basic colors (such as blue) as:

Cross-linguistic studies of the color domain suggest that:

The names for numbers 11 and 12 are dissimilar to the names for the numbers 1 and 2 in:

Berlin and Kay (1969) found that _____ color terms appear in all languages:

Whorf used the term "regular" analogy to emphasize:

English sentences typically obey the _____ order.

When we say that languages differ in their degree of differentiation of semantic domains, we mean that:

In Yucatec, the plural morpheme:

Current research into Eskimo words for snow suggests that:

The notion that a language determines certain nonlinguistic cognitive processes is referred to as:

An example of an English construction that does not obey the S-V-O order is:

Whorf and Sapir concluded that:

Which of the following is not a mass noun?

_______ states that the more frequent a word's usage, the shorter the word's length.

_____ terms indicate the relationship between an object in space and a person.

Studies of counting have found that Chinese preschoolers are superior to American preschoolers in counting: