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During which decades did Bloomfieldian structural linguistics see a decline?
1950s and 1960s
1930s and 1940s
1970s and 1980s
1900s and 1910s
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In the 1950s and 1960s, Bloomfieldian structural linguistics began to decline as a dominant paradigm in the field of linguistics. This decline can be attributed to several factors, including the rise of generative grammar, which offered a more abstract and theoretical approach to language analysis, as well as the increasing influence of functional and cognitive approaches to language.
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