At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

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• Roman Jakobson:

  From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

• Roman Jakobson:

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

• Roman Jakobson:

  Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two compo

• Roman Jakobson:

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

• Roman Jakobson:

  When I speak it is in order to be heard.

• Roman Jakobson:

  For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image o

• Roman Jakobson:

  In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism be

• Roman Jakobson:

  It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbi

• Roman Jakobson:

  Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the m

• Roman Jakobson:

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