From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.
Roman Jakobson Quotes
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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| 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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