A [...] fruitful source of the illusive feeling that language may be dispensed with in thought is the common failure to realize that language is not identical with its auditory symbolism. - Sapir (1921), a pag.15 The auditory symbolism may be replaced [...] by a motor or by a visual symbolism [...] or by still other [...] types of transfer [...]. Hence the contention that one thinks without language merely because he is not aware of a coexisting auditory imagery is very far indeed from being a valid one. - Sapir (1921), a pag.15
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