Application Quote by Adelaide Crapsey

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.

— Anonymous

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which…

— Roman Jakobson

“the long vowel opening at the centre of a consonant world”

— Karen Solie

“The number of vowel phonemes varies according to the different Masoretic traditions.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific…

— Roman Jakobson

Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a…

— Noam Chomsky

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree…

— Anonymous

Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join…

— L. Sprague de Camp

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

— Roman Jakobson

Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands out and…

— DJ Spooky

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

— Jimenez Lai

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above…

— Roman Jakobson