Quotes about Roman Jakobson

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the...

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Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even...

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Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top,...

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Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal...

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

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

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