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Thursday, 18 June 2009

How language shapes thought


Professor Lera Boroditsky at Stanford has dragged the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis back into the laboratory. Her work discovers the ways in which thought depends on the languages we use. Iverson, rest easy; programmers, take note.

Article: "How does our language shape the way we think?"
Posted by Stephen Taylor at 05:18
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