A psycholinguist conducts an experiment with a group of participants from a small village in Asia and another from a small village in South America.She asked the groups to describe the bands of color they saw in a rainbow and found they reported the same number of bands as their language possessed primary color words.These results
A)support the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
B)contradict the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
C)support the word frequency effect.
D)contradict the word frequency effect.

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The results support the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which suggests that language shapes the way people think and perceive the world. In this case, the participants' perception of the rainbow was limited by the number of color words in their language.

A Psycholinguist Conducts an Experiment with a Group of Participants