A famous lecturer argues that because the Hopi Indians have only two nouns for things that fly,one for birds and another for non-birds,the Hopi must interpret all flying things in terms of these two nouns.This argument is based on
A)the idealized prototype construct.
B)bottom-up processing.
C)deep structure elaboration.
D)the linguistic relativity hypothesis.

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The argument presented here is based on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, which suggests that language influences thought and perception. The lecturer is arguing that the Hopi's linguistic categories for flying things shape their understanding of the world around them.

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