Language in mind; advances in the study
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Dedre Gentner, Susan Goldin-Meadow
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Library
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2003
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MIT Press
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English
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The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong version of this hypothesis, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the American linguists who propounded it, languages vary in their semantic partitionin