Word: hockett
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...Indian scholar Panini worked out the first systematic description of Sanskrit. Its recent recognition, however, stems largely from the spirited intellectual battle now going on between two opposing schools: structural linguistics, led by Yale's Leonard Bloomfield in the 1930s and today defended most vigorously by Charles Hockett of Cornell, and the newer transformational linguistics, which was conceived and developed by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...