"A new era in the physiological investigation of……" — Roman Jakobson
"A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography."
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22 Quotes by Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson has 22 quotes on this site.
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What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?
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Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
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In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual…
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It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can…
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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in…
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A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
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The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to…
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Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
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Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries…
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At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
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Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
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Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
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