Roman Jakobson
Noun
Meaning
United States linguist (born in Russia) noted for his description of the universals of phonology (1896-1982)
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Musical semiotics further Semiotician Roman Jakobson Music semiology ( semiotics ) is the study of signs as they pertain to music on a variety of levels.
Further reading * Roman Jakobson: Echoes of His Scholarship.
Most notably, Nikolay Trubetzkoy and Roman Jakobson headed the efforts of the Prague School in setting the course of phonological theory in the decades from 1940.
Polata Knigopisnaja: An Information Bulletin Devoted to the Study of Early Slavic Books, Texts and Literatures, pg. 70 Roman Jakobson, P Weinrich.