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Who was the dominant figure in theoretical linguistics during the second half of the twentieth century influenced by Jakobson's work?
Noam Chomsky
Jacob Grimm
George Lakoff
Edward Sapir
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Noam Chomsky was the dominant figure in theoretical linguistics during the second half of the twentieth century. He was influenced by the work of Roman Jakobson, who was a linguist and semiotician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern linguistics. Chomsky's work is based on the idea that language is a cognitive system that is innate to humans.
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