20.8.04

The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail: "Prof. Gordon said the findings are perhaps the strongest evidence for a once largely discredited linguistic theory.
"More than 60 years ago, amateur linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf argued that learning a specific language determined the nature and content of how you think.
"That theory fell into intellectual disrepute after linguist Noam Chomsky's notions of a universal human grammar and Harvard University professor Steven Pinker's idea of a universal language instinct became widely accepted."

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