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Analysis: Is It True That The Language I Speak Shapes My Thought

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In the document “Is it true that the language I Speak shapes my thoughts?”, issued by the Linguistic Society of America, the editor Betty Berner comes up with a series of questions related to language and how we think.
Berner claims that different mental image such as music, shapes and fragances can be thought without using language.
On one hand, language acquisition is a process that results from the interaction of children with the environment (Vigotsky). In the meantime, how do they communicate? Not having the linguistic tools does not mean that they lack the capacity of thinking. If a baby is hungry or in pain, he will probably cry. This is not merely by chance, it is result of a mental process that, as I have mentioned before, does not
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