First refs to "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis"

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John Ellis's _Language, Thought, And Logic_ has a very nice and snippy
chapter on Sapir-Whorf that runs down a number of important pieces of the
puzzle - the whole strange notion of a "weak" and "strong" version of the
"hypothesis," for example, or that *Sapir's* 1931 "Conceptual Categories in
Primitive Languages" is often quoted as a means of criticising *Whorf.*

Ellis doesn't say who was first, but he does say that Max Black and Eric
Lenneberg are "perhaps the two most quoted critics of Whorf." That would be
Black's _Labyrinth of Language_ and Lenneberg's "Cognition in
Ethnolinguistics."

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