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Publication details [#1739]
Bright, Jane O. and William O. Bright. 1969. Semantic structures in northwestern California and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. In Tyler, Stephen A., ed. Cognitive anthropology. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. pp. 66–78.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is tested with reference to northwestern Californian Indian languages (which are typologically diverse, but spoken in similar cultures).