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Bilingualism is for me the fun...

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

Roman Jakobson 32 quotes

It is once again the vexing pr...

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 Jakobson 32 quotes

The function of poetry is to p...

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

Roman Jakobson 32 quotes

What's next? Shall we appoint ...

What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?

Roman Jakobson 32 quotes

A new era in the physiological...

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

Roman Jakobson 32 quotes

When I speak it is in order to...

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

Roman Jakobson 32 quotes

The task is to investigate spe...

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 Jakobson 32 quotes

The search for the symbolic va...

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.

Roman Jakobson 32 quotes

Speech sounds cannot be unders...

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Roman Jakobson 32 quotes

Semantics, or the study of mea...

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 Jakobson 32 quotes

Remember that the pharynx is a...

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 Jakobson 32 quotes

Of course, we have known for a...

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

Roman Jakobson 32 quotes

Now the identification of indi...

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

Roman Jakobson 32 quotes

Linguistic sounds, considered ...

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

Roman Jakobson 32 quotes

It is once again the vexing pr...

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 Jakobson 32 quotes

Instead of following one anoth...

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 Jakobson 32 quotes

In poetic language, in which t...

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 32 quotes

From a strictly articulatory p...

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

Roman Jakobson 32 quotes

For example, the opposition be...

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 Jakobson 32 quotes

Every linguistic sign is locat...

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

Roman Jakobson 32 quotes

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