Roman Jakobson

Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

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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. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

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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. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

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