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Charles F. Hockett

1916 - 2000

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Charles Francis Hockett (January 17, 1916 – November 3, 2000) was an American linguist who developed many influential ideas in American structuralist linguistics. He represents the post-Bloomfieldian phase of structuralism often referred to as "distributionalism" or "taxonomic structuralism". His academic career spanned over half a century at Cornell and Rice universities. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles F. Hockett has received more than 165,190 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles F. Hockett is the 159th most popular linguist (down from 142nd in 2019), the 7,516th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,677th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Linguist.

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  • 16

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  • 4.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Charles F. Hockett ranks 159 out of 214. Before him are Martí de Riquer i Morera, John Lyons, Arsène Darmesteter, Ziad Fazah, Arnold Chikobava, and Hermann Hirt. After him are Takekazu Asaka, Henry Liddell, Kenneth Lee Pike, János Sajnovics, Waldemar Rosenberger, and Hermann Möller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Charles F. Hockett ranks 230. Before him are Bernard Binlin Dadié, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, Fiorenzo Angelini, Ken Wharton, and Frederick C. Weyand. After him are Milton Babbitt, Julien Darui, Ken Curtis, Edward Binns, Vicente Ferreira da Silva, and Dorothy Cheney. Among people deceased in 2000, Charles F. Hockett ranks 237. Before him are István Gulyás, Stanislav Stratiev, Robert R. Wilson, Enric Valor i Vives, Ji Pengfei, and Alan Hovhaness. After him are Göran Tunström, Jean Dotto, Jacques Laurent, Nils Täpp, Patricia Jones, and Kenneth Lee Pike.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles F. Hockett ranks 7,516 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael J. Adams (1930), Brian Gottfried (1952), Edward O. Thorp (1932), Joseph Keller (1923), Schelte J. Bus (1956), and Shirley Fry (1927). After him are Roscoe Lee Browne (1922), Jeff Perry (1955), Ruby Bridges (1954), Richard Bass (1929), Andy Roddick (1982), and David Garrison (1952).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Charles F. Hockett ranks 15. Before him are William Labov (1927), Morris Swadesh (1909), Stephen Krashen (1941), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), William Stokoe (1919), and William Dwight Whitney (1827). After him are Kenneth Lee Pike (1912), George Perkins Marsh (1801), Dell Hymes (1927), Alice Kober (1906), Robert Blust (1940), and Lyle Campbell (1942).

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