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Sound Quotes by Roman Jakobson
- In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort…
- Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
- Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
- 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…
- At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
- Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
- A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
- Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the…
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