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Firth

DEFINITIONS OF: Firth

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n English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)

Synonyms:
J. R. Firth, John Rupert Firth
Example of:
linguist, linguistic scientist
a specialist in linguistics
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