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Who else, with Noam Chomsky, played a big role in the decline of Bloomfield's influence?
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Edward Sapir, alongside Noam Chomsky, played a pivotal role in the waning influence of Leonard Bloomfield's school of thought in linguistics, known as structuralism. Sapir, an American anthropologist and linguist, proposed an alternative approach called Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which suggests that the structure of a language influences the way its speakers perceive and conceptualize the world.
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