At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound,… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
