From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.
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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
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Roman Jakobson (18)
Birth: | 10th October, 1896 |
Death: | 18th July, 1982 |
Nationality: | Russian |
Profession: | Linguist, Theorist |
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Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.As one of the first of the structural analysis of language, which became the dominant trend of linguistics during the first half of the twentieth-century, Jakobson was among the most influential linguists of the century.
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