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Roman Jakobson Quotes

Roman Jakobson Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Roman Jakobson
Type:
Scientist
Nationality:
Russian
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  • 1
    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-JakobsonRoman Jakobson
  • 2
    Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession. Roman-JakobsonRoman Jakobson
  • 3
    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-JakobsonRoman Jakobson
  • 4
    From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds. Roman-JakobsonRoman Jakobson
  • 5
    In other words the auxiliary discipline of phonetics must be placed in the service of phonology, which is an integral part of linguistics. Roman-JakobsonRoman Jakobson
  • 6
    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-JakobsonRoman Jakobson
  • 7
    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-JakobsonRoman Jakobson
  • 8
    It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification. Roman-JakobsonRoman Jakobson
  • 9
    Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding. Roman-JakobsonRoman Jakobson
  • 10
    Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components. Roman-JakobsonRoman Jakobson
  • 11
    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-JakobsonRoman Jakobson
  • 12
    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-JakobsonRoman Jakobson
  • 13
    Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. Roman-JakobsonRoman Jakobson
  • 14
    The study of the sounds of language completely lost touch with the truly linguistic problem, that of their value as verbal signs. Roman-JakobsonRoman Jakobson
  • 15
    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-JakobsonRoman Jakobson