From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.
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Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.
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Birth: | 10th October, 1896 |
Death: | 18th July, 1982 |
Nationality: | Russian |
Profession: | Linguist, Theorist |
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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