Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Founder of structural linguistics and modern phonology; developed distinctive-feature theory.
1896, Moscow, Russia — 1982, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Russia · Czechoslovakia · United States
Roman Jakobson is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Founder of structural linguistics and modern phonology; developed distinctive-feature theory.
Jakobson was a founder of structural linguistics and modern phonology; with Nikolai Trubetzkoy he built phonological theory, and he developed the theory of distinctive features that describe speech sounds by binary contrasts. His model of the functions of language shaped linguistics, poetics and semiotics. He was born into a Jewish family in Moscow and emigrated westward, ultimately to the United States.
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Founder of structural linguistics and modern phonology; developed distinctive-feature theory.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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