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Also Known As Mary Rosamond Haas
Born January 12, 1910 • Richmond • Indiana
Died May 17, 1996 (aged 86) • Alameda • California
Subjects Of Study American Indian languages • Muskogean languages • Tunica language
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Noam Chomsky
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Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American psychologist
Kenneth L. Pike
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Joseph H. Greenberg
American anthropologist and linguist
Roman Jakobson
American linguist
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Benjamin Lee Whorf
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Mario Pei
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Sydney M. Lamb
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Leonard Bloomfield
American linguist
William Labov
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Lancelot Thomas Hogben
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Michel Thomas
linguist and teacher
Kristeva, Julia
Julia Kristeva
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Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian philosopher and literary critic
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