Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey. Roman Jakobson More Quotes by Roman Jakobson More Quotes From Roman Jakobson From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds. Roman Jakobson point view succession point-of-view Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components. Roman Jakobson long-time unity time long 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 coming which even sound
