"From a strictly articulatory point of view there……" — Roman Jakobson
"From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds."
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22 Quotes by Roman Jakobson
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- Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
- In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual…
- It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can…
- Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in…
- A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
- The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to…
- 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…
- At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
- Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
- Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
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