Sapir-Whorf hypothesis facts for kids
The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis is a linguistic idea which claims that the language people speak changes the way they think and act.
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Whorf's illustration of the difference between the English and Shawnee gestalt construction of cleaning a gun with a ramrod. From the article "Science and Linguistics", originally published in the MIT Technology Review, 1940.
See also
In Spanish: Hipótesis de Sapir-Whorf para niños
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