Experimental Languages
The possibility of linguistic determinism has been explored by a variety of authors, mostly in science fiction. Also, there actually exist some languages that have been constructed for the purpose of testing the assumption. However, no formal tests appear to have been done.
Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, and Linguistics have written and experimented on this hypothesis at length. See Hardin & Banaji, 1993; Ozgen, 2004; Davidoff, 2004; Roberson et al., 2004,2005; for some experimental work done in this area.
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