structural linguistics

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–noun

1.	a usually synchronic approach to language study in which a language is analyzed as an independent network of formal systems, each of which is composed of elements that are defined in terms of their contrasts with other elements in the system.

2.	a school of linguistics that developed in the U.S. during the 1930s–1950s, characterized by such an approach and by an emphasis on the overt formal features of language, esp. of phonology, morphology, and syntax.

Also called structuralism.

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structural linguistics
n. (used with a sing. verb)

A method of synchronic linguistic analysis employing structuralism, especially in contrasting those formal structures, such as phonemes or sentences, that make up systems, such as phonology or syntax.
A school of linguistics developed in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s that advocated and employed such a method.

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