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and "diachronic" linguistics; separation of linguistics from physiology and psychology; the trichotomy of le langage (human speech) - la langue (the language) - la parole (speech-utterance); and the view of language as an "arbitrary system of social habit". While Bloomfield did not adopt the Saussurean terminology of signifiant and signifié and considered "the statement of meanings the weak point in language study", he essentially agreed with Saussure on the importance of the joint consideration of form and meaning, calling it "the fundamental

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