"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap;……" — Roman Jakobson

"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it."

— Roman Jakobson

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What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?
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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"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap;……" — Roman Jakobson

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