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Who is known as the father of modern linguistics?

ANoam Chomsky

BFerdinand de Saussure

CLeonard Bloomfield

DEdward Sapir

Answer:

A. Noam Chomsky

Read Explanation:

  • Noam Chomsky is known as the father of modern linguistics.

  • His groundbreaking work in the 1950s revolutionized the field, particularly with his theory of generative grammar, which emphasizes the innate structures of language in the human mind.

  • His book Syntactic Structures (1957) introduced the concept of transformational grammar, challenging behaviorist views of language acquisition.

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