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Which linguist was considered the other most significant linguist in North America during Sapir's time?
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The other most significant linguist in North America during Sapir's time was Leonard Bloomfield. Bloomfield's approach to linguistics, known as structuralism, was very different from Sapir's. Bloomfield believed that language could be studied scientifically, and that the goal of linguistics was to describe the structure of language.
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