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 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
