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 acutebrightcapacity Change image and share on social
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 Jakobson acousticbegindevelop share on social
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 ambiguousbundlecomplex share on social
Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components. Roman Jakobson componentlongsign Change image and share on social
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 accompanimentactualautonomous Change image and share on social
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. Roman Jakobson classifydelimitateexplain Change image and share on social
From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds. Roman Jakobson articulatorypointsound Change image and share on social
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession. Roman Jakobson axislinguisticlocate Change image and share on social
