Who's Edward Sapir?

Linguist whose biggest achievement was to make linguistics a science

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

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

Who's Ferdinand de Saussure?

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

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

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

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

Linguist and pioneer of language who's considered the ''father of modern linguistics''

It holds that human thought is shaped by language, leading speakers of different languages to think differently

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According to Bloomfield's taxonomy of meaning lexical meaning is

He founded American structuralism, based on structural linguistics

Theory that holds that the human brain is biologically programmed to learn languages because the ability for language is innate.