Communication Quote by L. Sprague de Camp

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

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

— Roman Jakobson

People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying…

— Bill Bryson

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

— Roman Jakobson

In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are…

— Steven Pinker

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

— Roman Jakobson

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

I want to make sound effects for biomes. If you're walking along a river you hear the water, then in the forest you hear…

— C418

“We hear speech as a string of separate words, but unlike the tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it, a…

— Steven Pinker

The minute you have more than one voice, you have more possibilities opening up. You have all the molecules in all of those bodies…

— Robert Altman

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

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and…

— Isaac Asimov