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A search on the great linguist Leonard Bloomfield turned up as the ninth hit out of 1,649 a paper from Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies by Hildegard L.C. Tristram called "Diglossia in Anglo-Saxon England, or what was spoken Old English like?"
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I'll close with the words of the Father of American Linguistics, Leonard Bloomfield, from Chapter 3 of his great work Language a good chunk of which I am thrilled to find online: "The first language a human being learns to speak is his native language; he is a native speaker of this language."
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The methods used for the establishment of the ele - mentary linguistic unit, the phoneme, were later car - ried over to work on the smallest meaningful element in the language, the morpheme, especially in America, where Leonard Bloomfield was the leading figure.
STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968
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The second type amounts to what Leonard Bloomfield calls a "residue" -- words that cannot be accounted for by neo-grammarian formulas.
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Barth Healey Pt. W.shington, New York George W. Turner W.ter, W.ter, Nowhere Antipodean Newsletter Leonard Bloomfield, having begun with a theory of meaning which emphasized the environment in which objects were present and named, had to add the obvious proviso that we sometimes mention what is not present.
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[[Noam Chomsky]] 's formal model of language, [[transformational-generative grammar]], developed under the influence of his teacher [[Zellig Harris]], who was in turn strongly influenced by [[Leonard Bloomfield]], has been the dominant model since the 1960s.
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[[Noam Chomsky]] 's formal model of language, [[transformational-generative grammar]], developed under the influence of his teacher [[Zellig Harris]], who was in turn strongly influenced by [[Leonard Bloomfield]], has been the dominant model since the 1960s.
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