Bloomfieldian

[bloom-feel-dee-uhn]

Bloom·field·i·an

[bloom-feel-dee-uhn]
adjective
1.
Linguistics. influenced by, resembling, or deriving from the linguistic theory and the methods of linguistic analysis advocated by Leonard Bloomfield, characterized especially by emphasis on the classification of overt formal features.
noun
2.
a Bloomfieldian linguist.

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Bloomfieldian is always a great word to know.
So is tone. Does it mean:
the complete displacement of one language by another in a population of speakers
a movement in pitch serving to distinguish two words otherwise composed of the same sounds

Origin:
Bloomfield + -ian
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