Charles Francis Hockett was an American linguist who developed many influential ideas in American structuralist linguistics, representing the post-Bloomfieldian phase often called distributionalism or taxonomic structuralism. His academic career spanned over half a century at Cornell and Rice universities, and he held that linguistics was properly a branch of anthropology, making contributions significant to that field as well.
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RoleAmerican linguist, developed influential ideas in American structuralist linguistics 1 Charles F. Hockett
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His early fieldwork and dissertation research on Potawatomi, an Algonquian language, grounded the structuralist methods he later generalized in his design-features theory of language.
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Hockett structuralist linguistics carried forward and systematized Bloomfield distributional method, representing the post-Bloomfieldian phase of American structuralism.
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January 17, 1916, November 3, 2000
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January 17, 1916, November 3, 2000
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was an American linguist who developed many influential ideas in American structuralist linguistics.
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January 17, 1916, November 3, 2000
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January 17, 1916, November 3, 2000
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Charles Francis Hockett was an American linguist who developed many influential ideas in American structuralist linguistics, representing the post-Bloomfieldian phase often called distributionalism or taxonomic structuralism.
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