(Maher & Groves 48) This renders language as creative, innovative and stimulus-free. ... The grammatical order is recursive; we can construct new sentences unhindered. ... "generate") which sentences are okay ("possible sentences") and which are not okay (sentences like "you"re okay but not") and what structural properties they possess. (Maher & Groves 72) So take a sentence: The telephone rang violently. ... Chomsky is suggesting that if you changed the sentence to: The telephone violently rang; does not it mean the same thing, essentially? ...

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Saussure`s initiation of the Structuralist movement in linguistics and the innovative phonology of Bloomfield could be cited as perhaps the most important prerequisites to the of phonology of the Prague School in which Trubetskoy (1939) and Jakobson (1962) established and refined the theoretical concept of the phoneme. ...

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