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Six-month-old Ohmar recognizes the difference between squares and circles just as accurately as his 3-year-old brother, who can correctly name the different shapes. This fact would most directly challenge Group of answer choices

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Whorf's linguistic determinism hypothesis

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Linguistic determinism hypothesis: The linguistic determinism hypothesis is also referred to as Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and is defined as the concept that a particular language and language's structures limit & explain or determine human thought or knowledge and thought processes including memory, perception, and categorization. In short, it determines that people speaking different languages possess different though processes.

Example: An individual living in mountain areas usually describe the place in many words but who doesn't live there might describe the place in one or two words.

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