For Wednesday 12/5, please read pgs. 114-127 of the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website:

Whitney, Paul. 1998. The Psychology of Language, Chapter 4 (‘Theories of the Language-Thought Relationship’).

Additionally, I’ve posted the following optional reading (though quite short, and rather humorous), which describes the history of certain exaggerated claims regarding the Eskimo vocabulary for snow:

Pullum, Geoffrey K. 1989 The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 7: 275-281.