Abstract

This paper uses three of these as a springboard (or better soapbox) for presenting my views on the SapirWhorl hypothesis (that is, the various detenninisfic positions on perception, cognition, and language structure). It is hoped that this such expression will be preaching to the choir, though it is possible that it will not be. Upon the expression of those views, however, I am more at liberty to show how, on the one hand, cultural knowledge helps solve lexical problems, and on the other, how useful lexical organizations are as expressions of world knowledge because they can be exploited efficiently

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