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Roman Jakobson quotes

Russian Scientist October 11, 1896 – July 18, 1982

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Roman Jakobson quote: "From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no..."
From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds. Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson quote: "Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of..."
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession. Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson quote: "Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any..."
Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components. Roman Jakobson
For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc. Roman Jakobson
The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features. Roman Jakobson
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 all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning. Roman Jakobson
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language. 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
Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve. Roman Jakobson
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified. 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
Roman Jakobson quote: "At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a..."
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features. Roman Jakobson
Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx. Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson quote: "Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena..."
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic. Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson quote: "When I speak it is in order to be heard."
When I speak it is in order to be heard. Roman Jakobson

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