How does the kt speakers interpretation of time


Problem

Certain linguistics scholars studied the language K.T., spoken by an aboriginal people living on an island in Oceania. Like Guugu Yimithirr, it uses cardinal directions to express locations. But these linguistic scholars found that in the K.T. language, this also affected a speaker's interpretation of time.

In a series of experiments, the linguists had K.T. speakers put a sequential series of image cards in order-one which showed the aging process (e.g., a baby, a teenager and an adult). The speakers were sat at tables during the experiment, once facing south, and another time facing north. Regardless of which direction they were facing, all speakers arranged the cards in order from east to west-the same direction the sun's path takes through the sky as the day passes. By contrast, English speakers doing the same experiment always arranged the cards from left to right-the direction in which we read.

Recall the refined version of Benjamin Whorf's theory as argued by Guy Deutscher. How does the K.T. speakers' interpretation of time in the above experiment support this theory?

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