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  2. Roman Jakobson - Wikipedia

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    Jakobson was born in Moscow on 11 October [O.S. 29 September] 1896 [2] [3] to well-to-do parents of Jewish descent, the industrialist Osip Jakobson and chemist Anna Volpert Jakobson, [2] and he developed a fascination with language at a very young age.

  3. Jakobson's functions of language - Wikipedia

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    Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of verbal communication can be described. [2] Each of the functions has an associated factor. For this work, Jakobson was influenced by Karl Bühler's organon model, to which he added the poetic, phatic and metalingual functions.

  4. Kazan School - Wikipedia

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    The Kazan School of phonology was an influential group of linguists in Kazan. The linguistic circle included the Polish linguist Jan Baudouin de Courtenay and his student Nikolai Trubetzkoy. Mikołaj Kruszewski, Vasilii Alekseevich Bogoroditskii, Sergeĭ Konstantinovich Bulich, and Aleksandr Ivanovic Aleksandrov are usually considered members ...

  5. Troubleshooting AOL Desktop Gold

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    • Within your address book, type in your contact using the Quick Find search bar. There may be times your contact is not displayed in the same order as before. • If the issue still exists, proceed to the next step. Compose/Write email window • Open a new email by clicking the Write button on the toolbar.

  6. Russian formalism - Wikipedia

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    Russian formalism was a school of literary theory in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s. It includes the work of a number of highly influential Russian and Soviet scholars such as Viktor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynianov, Vladimir Propp, Boris Eichenbaum, Roman Jakobson, Boris Tomashevsky, Grigory Gukovsky who revolutionised literary criticism between 1914 and the 1930s by establishing the specificity ...

  7. Distinctive feature - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a distinctive feature is the most basic unit of phonological structure that distinguishes one sound from another within a language.For example, the feature [+voice] distinguishes the two bilabial plosives: [p] and [b] (i.e., it makes the two plosives distinct from one another).

  8. Glottalic theory - Wikipedia

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    Roman Jakobson has asserted that no such language is known; [4] however, that is disputed by some linguists who oppose the theory. For example, Robert Blust showed that Kelabit , a language of the Sarawak highlands in Borneo , [ 5 ] has a system of stops consisting of voiceless stops, plain voiced stops, and prevoiced stops with voiceless ...

  9. Resize and position screens in AOL Desktop Gold

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    To view multiple windows in AOL Desktop Gold, you'll want to resize and position them appropriately on your screen. You can also save the window size and position for the next time you sign in to Desktop Gold. Open the window you want to resize or move. Click and drag the outside border of the window to modify its size.