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structural linguistics
n. (used with a sing. verb)
1. A method of synchronic linguistic analysis employing structuralism, especially in contrasting those formal structures, such as phonemes or sentences, that make up systems, such as phonology or syntax.2. A school of linguistics developed in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s that advocated and employed such a method.
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