Russian - Scientist | October 11, 1896 - July 18, 1982
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
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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.
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Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
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At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
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A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
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From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.
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Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
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Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.
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When I speak it is in order to be heard.
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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.
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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.
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