"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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"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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Explore more quotes by Roman Jakobson

"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."

Identity

"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."

Light

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

First

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

Now

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

Time

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Order

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Richness

"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."

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