From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.
Roman Jakobson Quotes
For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.
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| 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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