Question

Who collaborated with Morris Halle and Gunnar Fant on the theory of Distinctive Features in phonology?

• A. Leonard Bloomfield
• B. Edward Sapir
• C. Roman Jakobson
• D. Ferdinand de Saussure

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Roman Jakobson

• The person who collaborated with Morris Halle and Gunnar Fant on the theory of Distinctive Features in phonology was Roman Jakobson. 

• Jakobson, Halle, and Fant are credited with developing the concept of distinctive features, most notably in their work "Preliminaries to Speech Analysis" where they outlined a set of features that could differentiate sounds in language.