john rupert firth

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john rupert firth - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  John Rupert Firth
      n 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) [syn: Firth, J. R. Firth, John Rupert Firth
           ]