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- Linguistic determinism
Idea that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought, as well as thought processes such as categorization, memory, and perception;strong form of linguistic relativity
Linguistic determinism is the concept that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought, as well as thought processes such as categorization, memory, and perception. The term implies that people's native languages will affect their thought process and therefore people will have different thought processes based on their mother tongues. Wikipedia
