Children can learn concepts before they have acquired labels for those concepts.This finding demonstrates:
A) support for a strong version of the Whorfian hypothesis
B) that a weak version of the Whorfian hypothesis is implausible
C) that you cannot think about a concept before you have a word for it
D) that our language does not entirely determine the way we think about the world

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The finding that children can learn concepts before acquiring labels for those concepts suggests that our language does not entirely determine the way we think about the world. This supports a weaker version of the Whorfian hypothesis, which suggests that language influences but does not determine thought.

Children Can Learn Concepts Before They Have Acquired Labels for Those