PIONEERS OF LANGUAGE POP QUIZ

Who's this?

• Ferdinand de Saussure

• Leonard Bloomfield

• Noam Chomsky

• Edward Sapir

Who's Edward Sapir?

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Linguist whose biggest achievement was to make linguistics a science

• Ferdinand de Saussure

• Noam Chomsky

• Edward Sapir

• Leonard Bloomfield

Concerned with the study of the interrelation between a language and the cultural behavior of those who speak it.

• Structuralism

• Ethnolinguistics

• Transformational Generative Grammar

• Modern linguistics

The study of language is based on the theory that a language is a structured system of formal units such as sentences and syntax.

• Structuralism

• Transformational Generative Grammar

• Sapir- Whorf Hypothesis

• Ethnolinguistics

Who's Ferdinand de Saussure?

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The deep structure of a sentence is the visible form and structure of a sentence.

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the mental capacity of generating sentences with the use of unconscious knowledge of the language refers to...

• Structuralism

• Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

• The taxonomy of meaning

• Transformational Generative Grammar

Refers to the actual use of language by the speaker of a particular social group. P

• Parole

• Language

• Lexical meaning

• surface structure

''Meaning consists of the relation between speech and the practical events that precede and follow it'' This definition was given by...

• Leonard Bloomfield

• Ferdinand de Saussure

• Noam Chomsky

• Edward Sapir