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Subject: Re: Sapir-Whorf
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As far as I know, the best evidence *against* Whorf-Sapir was provided by
Berlin and Kay (can't remember the year) in their work on basic color terms.
Essentially, they found that people could all perceive the same colors even
tough some people had as few as 2 color terms in their language (black and
white).  A useful summary of the findings is given in Clark and Clark's
"Psychology of Language" textbook.   Hope this helps.

          --Bruce Lambert


