Acoustics Quote by Roman Jakobson

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

As a musician, language is almost like another instrument. Every word has a sound.

— Rosalia

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

Rather than thinking of sound and sense in my essays as two opposing principles, two perpendicular trajectories, as they are often considered in conversations…

— Cole Swensen

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

— Roman Jakobson

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

— Pierre Schaeffer

Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with…

— Roman Jakobson

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

— Joe Frazier

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

— Roman Jakobson

Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.

— MC Yogi

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Linguistic and musical sound systems illustrate a common theme in the study of music-language relations. On the surface, the two domains are dramatically different.…

— Anonymous