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Noun: J. R. Firth
  1. 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)
    - Firth, John Rupert Firth

Type of: linguist, linguistic scientist

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