This is a perfect example of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. In all my Linguistics classes that deal with Sociolinguistics or language processing, there were no good examples. They were avoiding good ones like this one.
Not really, but kinda. His view is a little different and can explain a lot of things in traditional linguistics as being different from previously thought. His major contribution is in his theories that natural language is essentially binary.
This is a perfect example of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. In all my Linguistics classes that deal with Sociolinguistics or language processing, there were no good examples. They were avoiding good ones like this one.
I hadn't heard the name for it before. It looks like I can thank Chomsky for that. Thanks for the info.
It's actually from traditional linguistics, far before Chomsky. Chomsky contributed a lot to the science, but it existed long before him.
Yeah, I'm no linguist. Just a quick check shows that Chomsky is largely credited with discrediting linguistic relativity.
Not really, but kinda. His view is a little different and can explain a lot of things in traditional linguistics as being different from previously thought. His major contribution is in his theories that natural language is essentially binary.