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Suppose That Léa Speaks a Language That Has Only Two

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Suppose that Léa speaks a language that has only two words for weight (heavy and light) ,while Shira speaks a language that has a dozen different words for different weights.According to the linguistic relativity hypothesis,what would you expect about each person's ability to discriminate different weights?


A) Léa would be better at discriminating different weights.
B) Shira would be better at discriminating different weights.
C) there would be no difference in how the two people discriminate different weights.
D) Léa would be better at discriminating subtle differences in weight and Shira would be better at discriminating significant differences in weight.

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