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John Rupert Firth

 
WordNet: John Rupert Firth
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #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)
  Synonyms: Firth, J. R. Firth


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