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> [Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-jakobson/bilingualism-is-for-me-the-fundamental-problem-of-linguistics/)

[Roman Jakobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-jakobson/)

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## More by Roman Jakobson

> [Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-jakobson/remember-that-the-pharynx-is-at-a-crossroads-from-which-leads-off-at/)

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> [It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-jakobson/it-is-once-again-the-vexing-problem-of-identity-within-variety/)

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> [A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-jakobson/a-new-era-in-the-physiological-investigation-of-linguistic-sounds-was/)

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> [When I speak it is in order to be heard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-jakobson/when-i-speak-it-is-in-order-to-be-heard/)

[Roman Jakobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-jakobson/)

> [A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-jakobson/a-linguist-deaf-to-the-poetic-functions-of-language-and-a-literary/)

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> [The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-jakobson/the-poetic-function-is-the-set-towards-the-message-itself-focus-on/)

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> [What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-jakobson/what-s-next-shall-we-appoint-elephants-to-teach-zoology/)

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> [At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-jakobson/at-first-acoustics-attributed-to-the-different-sounds-only-a-limited/)

[Roman Jakobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-jakobson/)

> [Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-jakobson/speech-sounds-cannot-be-understood-delimited-classified-and-explained/)

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> [From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-jakobson/from-a-strictly-articulatory-point-of-view-there-is-no-succession-of/)

[Roman Jakobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-jakobson/)

> [Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-jakobson/bilingualism-is-for-me-the-fundamental-problem-of-linguistics/)

[Roman Jakobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-jakobson/)

> [Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-jakobson/instead-of-following-one-another-the-sounds-overlap-a-sound-which-is/)

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> [In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-jakobson/in-poetic-language-in-which-the-sign-as-such-takes-on-an-autonomous/)

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> [Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-jakobson/semantics-or-the-study-of-meaning-remained-undeveloped-while/)

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> [Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-jakobson/of-course-we-have-known-for-a-long-time-that-a-word-like-any-verbal/)

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