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← Language & CommunicationWithin an isolated Amazonian tribe lacking spatial prepositions like 'left' or 'right', which cognitive consequence concerning navigation and object arrangement is most likely?
A)Impaired memory for familiar routes
B)Superior map-reading skill acquisition
C)Reduced susceptibility to spatial illusions
D)Reliance on cardinal direction encoding✓
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The tribe's linguistic relativity influences their spatial cognition because they lack relative spatial terms; therefore, they depend on absolute reference frames. This absolute encoding is a result of linguistic determinism, rather than relative positioning, which could allow for flexible route learning.
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