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With whom did Roman Jakobson develop new techniques for linguistic sound systems analysis?

  • Nikolai Trubetzkoy

  • Ferdinand de Saussure

  • Noam Chomsky

  • Roland Barthes

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Roman Jakobson developed new techniques for linguistic sound systems analysis with Nikolai Trubetzkoy. Together, they developed a system of distinctive features, which is a set of binary oppositions that can be used to describe the sounds of any language. This system has been used by linguists to study the sound systems of languages around the world.
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