Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson
Roman Osipovich Jakobsonwas a Russian–American linguist and literary theorist...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth11 October 1896
CountryRussian Federation
symbolism sound language
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.
numbers different firsts
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
acoustics sound mystery
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.