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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (iou)



Sapir-Whorf hypothesis noun phr. M20.
[Edward Sapir (1884-1939) and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941), US linguists.]
Linguistics. A hypothesis, first advanced by Sapir in 1929 and subsequently developed by Whorf, that the structure of a language partly determines a native speaker's categorization of experience. Cf. WHORFIAN.