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  1. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Probabilistic Inference: Evidence from the Domain of Color

    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that our thoughts are shaped by our native language, and that speakers of different languages therefore think differently. ... Thus, this general approach, and our model as an instance of it, offer a possible resolution of one source of controversy surrounding the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: taking that hypothesis ...

  2. PDF The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and inference under uncertainty

    the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis with probabilistic inference has been focused there. In what follows, we first briefly review the relevant empirical terrain, namely tests of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that highlight the sources of controversy referenced above, focusing on the domain of color. We then review the

  3. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: How Language Influences How We Express

    The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, also known as linguistic relativity, refers to the idea that the language a person speaks can influence their worldview, thought, and even how they experience and understand the world. While more extreme versions of the hypothesis have largely been discredited, a growing body of research has demonstrated that ...

  4. PDF The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and inference under uncertainty

    The. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that the seman-tic categories of one's native language influence thought, and that as a result speakers of different lan-guages think differently. This idea has captured the imaginations of many, and has inspired a large litera-ture. However the hypothesis is also controversial, for at least two reasons, one ...

  5. Definition and History of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is the linguistic theory that the semantic structure of a language shapes or limits the ways in which a speaker forms conceptions of the world. It came about in 1929. The theory is named after the American anthropological linguist Edward Sapir (1884-1939) and his student Benjamin Whorf (1897-1941).

  6. Whorfianism

    The term "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis" was coined by Harry Hoijer in his contribution (Hoijer 1954) to a conference on the work of Benjamin Lee Whorf in 1953. But anyone looking in Hoijer's paper for a clear statement of the hypothesis will look in vain. Curiously, despite his stated intent "to review and clarify the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis ...

  7. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and inference under uncertainty

    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that human thought is shaped by language, leading speakers of different languages to think differently. ... This view may resolve some of the controversy surrounding the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and may help to normalize the hypothesis by linking it to established principles that also explain other phenomena. On ...

  8. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis)

    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that people experience the world based on the structure of their language, and that linguistic categories shape and limit cognitive processes. It proposes that differences in language affect thought, perception, and behavior, so speakers of different languages think and act differently. ...

  9. Linguistic relativity

    The idea of linguistic relativity, known also as the Whorf hypothesis, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (/ s ə ˌ p ɪər ˈ hw ɔːr f / sə-PEER WHORF), or Whorfianism, is a principle suggesting that the structure of a language influences its speakers' worldview or cognition, and thus individuals' languages determine or influence their perceptions of the world.. The hypothesis has long been ...

  10. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

    Language and Thought. Richard J. Gerrig, Mahzarin R. Banaji, in Thinking and Problem Solving, 1994 A Color Memory. When researchers first turned their attention to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, memory for color was considered to be an ideal domain for study (see Brown, 1976).Whorf had suggested that language users "dissect nature along the lines laid down by [their] native languages" (1956 ...

  11. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Probabilistic Inference: Evidence from

    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that our thoughts are shaped by our native language, and that speakers of different languages therefore think differently. This hypothesis is controversial in part because it appears to deny the possibility of a universal groundwork for human cognition, and in part because some findings taken to support it have not reliably replicated.

  12. Does the Linguistic Theory at the Center of the Film 'Arrival' Have Any

    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is controversial on many levels, starting with its name. Linguists Benjamin Lee Whorf and Edward Sapir were close collaborators in the first decades of the 20th century ...

  13. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and inference under uncertainty

    Abstract The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that human thought is shaped by language, leading speakers of differentlanguages to think differently. This hypothesis has sparked both enthusiasm and controversy, but despite its prominence it has only occasionally been addressed in computational terms.

  14. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and inference under uncertainty

    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that human thought is shaped by language, leading speakers of different languages to think differently. This hypothesis has sparked both enthusiasm and controversy, but despite its prominence it has only occasionally been addressed in computational terms.

  15. PDF The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Today

    Needless to say that the "Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis", well-known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, has been the subject of controversy ever since it was first formulated. Its originator was the American anthologist and linguist E.Sapir. He clearly expresses the principle of this hypothesis in his essay "The Status of Linguistics as a ...

  16. PDF What Is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?

    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, as expressed in I, predicts that. blue boundary will be subjectively pushed apart by English speakers English has the words green and blue, while Tarahumara speakers, distinction, will show no comparable distortion. Before describing the experiment, two explanatory preliminaries.

  17. PDF The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and probabilistic inference: Evidence from

    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis [1,2] holds that our thoughts are shaped by our native language, and that speakers ... The first source of controversy is that the hypothesis appears to undercut any possibility of a universal foundation for human cognition. This idea sits uneasily with the finding that variation in color naming across languages is ...

  18. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and probabilistic inference: Evidence from

    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that our thoughts are shaped by our native language, and that speakers of different languages therefore think differently. This hypothesis is controversial in part because it appears to deny the possibility of a universal groundwork for human cognition, and in part because some findings taken to support it have not reliably replicated.

  19. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and inference under uncertainty.

    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that human thought is shaped by language, leading speakers of different languages to think differently. This hypothesis has sparked both enthusiasm and controversy, but despite its prominence it has only occasionally been addressed in computational terms.

  20. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and inference under uncertainty

    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that human thought is shaped by language, leading speakers of different languages to think differently. This hypothesis has sparked both enthusiasm and controversy, but despite its prominence it has only occasionally been addressed in computational terms. Recent developments support a view of the Sapir-Whorf ...

  21. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Today Basel

    The Sapir-Whorf's Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis provokes intellectual discussion about the strong impact language has on our perception of the world around us. This paper intends to enliven the still open questions raised by this hypothesis. This is done by considering some of Sapir's, Whorf's, and other scholar's works.

  22. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and inference under uncertainty

    A view of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in terms of probabilistic inference is supported, which may resolve some of the controversy surrounding the hypothesis and help to normalize the hypothesis by linking it to established principles that also explain other phenomena. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that human thought is shaped by language, leading speakers of different languages to think ...

  23. Linguistic relativity: Sapir-Whorf, The Hopi time, Palmer View

    Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. ... The Hopi time controversy is the academic debate about how the Hopi language grammaticalizes the concept of time, and about whether the differences between the ways the English and the Hopi language describes time are an example of linguistic relativity or not. In popular discourse, the debate is often framed as a ...