Multiple Choice
In the Mayan Yucatec language, all nouns are accompanied by a term specifying the material of which an object is made (Lucy, 2005) . Members of this culture appear to pay more attention to what an object is made of than to its overall shape; English speakers, by contrast, focus on an object's overall shape. This finding:
A) contradicts Benjamin Whorf's argument.
B) refutes the linguistic relativity hypothesis.
C) supports the linguistic relativity hypothesis.
D) is irrelevant to the linguistic relativity hypothesis.
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