Whorf
[ hwawrf, wawrf ]
/ ʰwɔrf, wɔrf /
noun
Benjamin Lee,1897–1941, U.S. linguist.
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Whorf
/ (wɔːf) /
noun
Benjamin Lee. 1897–1943, US linguist, who argued that human language determines perceptionSee also Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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