Effects of language on color discriminability

A very interesting set of experiments if you are at all interested in the matter of linguistic determinism, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis or the notion that language determines thought. At first this paper, Effects of language on color discriminability might seem to be saying that it does; language seems to affect our colour discrimination. But be careful; linguistic determinism says that the actual perception is determined by the language. The results here or more commensurate with seeing language as a secondary level beyond the basic perception:

"Because the effect of language can be altered by linguistic interference, it seems that
language is acting a secondary process in the color discrimination tasks used in these studies. This secondary process can alter the results or speed of a color judgment,but it seems more likely that this interference happens at a decision stage rather late in the processing stream."

That's not to say that language may not channel thought in some cases or make certain perspectives more likely among a language community, merely that it does not control fully. There is room for perceptions at variance with the language's predispositions. In the Genesis story of Adam naming the animals, God brings the animals to Adam to name and whatever name Adam gave, that was its name. I think that this is saying that there are boundaries: that God makes it that there are some things that are 'given' but within that we have a degree of freedom to 'name' (taxonomise, represent, divide and combine etc) and God is willing to let that stand, may even be enjoying what we make of 'it'. This seems to me to allow for linguistic determinism in a weak form in that it can be overturned by human creativity.