Roman Jakobson Quotes & Sayings
18 most famous Roman Jakobson quotes and sayings (scientist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.”
“From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.”
“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.”
“Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.”
“Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.”
“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.”
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