Above Quote by 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

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

Let's define listening as making meaning from sound. It's a mental process, and it's a process of extraction. We use some pretty cool techniques…

— Julian Treasure

“The study of a language . . . allows its students to hear a people's 'interpretation (or misinterpretation) of messages from environment to human.'…

— Sy Montgomery

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

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

— Roman Jakobson

As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something…

— Jurgen Habermas

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

— Roman Jakobson

Speech is the index of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

Speech is the image of actions

— Anonymous

“Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of…

— Henry Sweet

Listening is the process of creating meaning in the speaker.

— Michael Rost