The theory that language impacts on perception forms part of the sapir - whorf hypothesis , which states there is a systematic relationship between the grammatical categories of the language a person speaks and how that person both understands the world and behaves in it 语言影响感知能力的理论，是“沙霍假设”的一部分，该假设认为， 1个人说话的语法范畴，以及这个人如何理解世界和他的行为，两者间存有系统的关系。
