In the 1950s,the anthropologist Benjamin Whorf argued that a person's language powerfully and irreversibly determines the possible range of that person's thoughts.In subsequent decades,this claim
A) has been repeatedly supported,with examples coming from many different content areas.
B) has been supported by the discovery that different cultures describe spatial arrangements in different ways and seem unable to learn new ways to describe these arrangements.
C) has found little specific support,with the implication that language certainly guides our thoughts but does not influence what it is possible for someone to think.
D) seems correct for some domains (e.g. ,color perception) but not for other domains (e.g. ,thinking about spatial relations) .
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