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Testing Whorf in the domain of motion

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Benjamin Whorf (1897-1941) hypothesised that the particular features of a language affect the way its speakers think. This study tested a rather strong version of such an hypothesis in the semantic domain of motion, and found no evidence supporting the Whorfian paradigm.

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Filippo-Enrico Cardini
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