English Language · English
'Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions, and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols'—this definition from Edward Sapir's 'Language' (1921) is most directly contrasted by which linguist's position emphasizing innate structures?
- 1Dell Hymes
- 2Leonard Bloomfield
- 3Noam Chomsky✓
- 4Ferdinand de Saussure
Correct answer
Noam Chomsky
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