Distributionalism

Distributionalism was a general theory of language developed by Leonard Bloomfield and Zellig S. Harris. This theory emerged in the United States in the 1950s, as a variant of structuralism, which was the mainstream linguistic theory at the time, and dominated American linguistics for some time.[1]

It is considered one of the scientific grounds of Noam Chomsky's generative grammar and had considerable influence on language teaching.

External references

John G. FOUGHT, Diamond BAR, "Distributionalism and Immediate Constituent Analysis in American Linguistics", in Auroux, Sylvain / Koerner, E.F.K. / Niederehe, Hans-Josef / Versteegh, Kees, Eds. 2001, History of the Language Sciences, vol. 2, coll. Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) 18/2, DE GRUYTER MOUTON, 1986–97.

References

Peter Spyns, 2000, Natural Language Processing in Medicine: Design, Implementation and Evaluation of an Analyser for Dutch, Leuven University Press, ISBN 978-90-5867-069-4, p. 36.

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