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Web Resources

• The Wikipedia page on linguistic relativity and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is quite good.
• Linguistic Society of America (LSA) – introductory information on language and thought.
• The World Atlas of Language Structures Online – further information on gender systems in different languages, and color names in different languages, with a color data map.
• A big list of American English idioms.
• Examples of several kinds of figurative speech. Grammar.about.com
• Examples of the Stroop task, online – here is the typical one.