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Charles F. Hockett

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Gender Male
Death24 years ago
Date of birth January 17,1916
Zodiac sign Capricorn
Born Columbus
Ohio
United States
Date of died November 3,2000
DiedHouston
Texas
United States
Influenced by Leonard Bloomfield
Known forstructural linguistics
linguistic anthropology
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Charles F. Hockett Life story


Charles Francis Hockett was an American linguist who developed many influential ideas in American structuralist linguistics. He represents the post-Bloomfieldian phase of structuralism often referred to as "distributionalism" or "taxonomic structuralism".

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