A Famous Lecturer Argues That Because the Hopi Indians Have

Multiple Choice

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 upon ________.

A) bottom-up processing
B) deep structure elaboration
C) idealized prototype construct
D) the linguistic relativity hypothesis