The sound shape of language

The sound shape of language / Roman Jakobson, Linda R. Waugh ; assisted by Martha Taylor.

""Reading this volume transported me back to Harvard and MIT lecture halls of the 1960s, where weekly Roman Jakobson would spellbind his audience (this reviewer included), developing his vision of language through impassioned exposition, deft and devastating allusions to critical literatur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jakobson, Roman, 1896-1982
Other Authors: Waugh, Linda R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1987.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology.
phonology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Phonetics & Phonology.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology
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Table of Contents:
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION; PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION (Linda R. Waugh); PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION (Linda R. Waugh); Chapter One Speech Sounds and Their Tasks; I. Spoonerisms; II. Sense Discrimination; III. Homonymy; IV. Doublets; V. Early Search; VI. Invariance and Relativity; VII. Quest for Oppositions; VIII. Features and Phonemes; IX. Speech Sounds and the Brain; X. Redundancy; XI. Configurative Features; XII. Stylistic Variations; XIII. Physiognomic Indices; XIV. The Distinctive Features in Relation to the Other Components of the Speech Sound
  • XV. The Identification of Distinctive FeaturesXVI. Sense Discrimination and Sense Determination; XVII. Autonomy and Integration; XVIII. Universals; XIX. Speech Perception; XX. Life and Language; XXI. Role of Learning; XXII. Speech and Visualized Language; XXIII. Multiformity and Conformism; XXIV. Inner Speech; Chapter Two Quest for the Ultimate Constituents; I. To the Memory of Pierre Delattre; II. Vowel ~ Consonant; III. Syllabicity; IV. Markedness; V. Grave ~ Acute; VI. Production and Decoding; VII. Compact ~ Diffuse; VIII. Sharpness and Flatness; IX. Interrelation of Tonality Features
  • X. And What Now?Chapter Three The Network of Distinctive Features; I. Significance of the Distinctive Features; II. The Two Axes; III. Nasality; IV. Voiced ~ Voiceless and Tense ~ Lax; V. Strident ~ Mellow; VI. Consonantal Correspondences to the Prosodic Features; VII. Vowel Harmony; VIII. Glides; IX. The Nascent Sound Shape; X. Dynamic Synchrony; XI. Vistas; Chapter Four The Spell of Speech Sounds; I. Sound Symbolism; II. Synesthesia; III. Word Affinities; IV. Sound-Symbolic Ablaut; V. Speech Sounds in Mythopoeic Usage; VI. Verbal Taboo; VII. Glossolalia; VIII. Sound as the Basis of Verse
  • IX. Children's Verbal ArtX. Saussure's poétique phonisante Seen from Today; XI. Inferences from a Cummings Poem; XII. Language and Poetry; AFTERWORD; APPENDIX ONE The Role of Phonic Elements in Speech Perception; APPENDIX TWO On the Sound Shape of Language: Mediacy and Immediacy by Linda R. Waugh; REFERENCES; INDEX OF NAMES; INDEX OF LANGUAGES; INDEX OF TOPICS DISCUSSED

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