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Ja⋅kob⋅son

[yah-kuhb-suhn]
–noun
Ro⋅man [roh-mahn, -muhn] , 1896–1982, U.S. linguist and scholar, born in Russia.
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Ja·kob·son   (yä'kəb-sən)   
Russian-born American linguist. A founder of modern structural linguistics and modern phonology, he was particularly influential in the fields of Slavic languages, phonology, and poetics.
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