In the article "Turning the Tables: Language and Spatial Reasoning," Peggy Li and Lila Gleitman claim to have debunked the theory that speakers of the Mayan language have a different understanding of space and spatial relations than speakers of other languages. What theory is this article attacking?

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The article is attacking the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which suggests that the structure of a language strongly influences or determines the perceptions and thoughts of its speakers. The article argues that speakers of different languages have different ways of talking about space, but this does not necessarily mean that their understandings of space are fundamentally different.

In the Article "Turning the Tables: Language and Spatial Reasoning