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Linguistic Relativity

2025· book· en· W4409415172 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicCategorization, perception, and language
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLinguistic relativityLinguisticsTheory of relativityPhilosophyPsychologyTheoretical physicsPhysics

Abstract

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Abstract Does your language distinguish between dark and light blues? Do your verbs require a report on where and how you got your information? Can you easily talk about non-actual situations in your language? What does this mean for the way you see the world, if anything? Linguistic relativity, also known as Whorfianism by some, is actually a group of related positions that postulate that one’s native language generates some set of important directions or limitations on one’s cognition. In its extreme form, it even suggests that languages can create distinct (and possibly incompatible) worldviews. Recent cross-linguistic experiments on subtle grammatical distinctions between colour words or the presence of subjunctive conditionals have reignited the once furious debate on just how much our languages can shape the way we see the world. This book traces the development of the concept of linguistic relativity through the centuries, paying particular attention to Benjamin Whorf and the evidence for or against the various claims he made in this realm. We follow that with the application of linguistic relativity to modern attempts to verify it, as well as to certain social and intellectual endeavours that are prominent in the current philosophic, linguistic, and cognitive science literature.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.449
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0640.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread0.300 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2025
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