Phonetics Quotes

7 quotes by 6 authors

• India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as… — Lin Yutang
• Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor… — Roman Jakobson
• Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in… — Alexander Graham Bell
• The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing. — Thomas Edward Brown
• In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm… — Eliza Coupe
• I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to… — Brendan Gleeson
• Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study… — Roman Jakobson

Who Wrote These Phonetics Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 7 Phonetics Quotes as follows:

• 2 Phonetics Quotes by Roman Jakobson
• 1 Phonetics Quote by Lin Yutang
• 1 Phonetics Quote by Alexander Graham Bell
• 1 Phonetics Quote by Thomas Edward Brown
• 1 Phonetics Quote by Eliza Coupe
• 1 Phonetics Quote by Brendan Gleeson