The Phonemic Grail
A.C. Gimson, 17 April 1980
The Sound Shape of Language
by Roman Jakobson and Linda Waugh.
Harvester, 308 pp., £13.50, September 1979,0 85527 926 5 Show More
by Roman Jakobson and Linda Waugh.
Harvester, 308 pp., £13.50, September 1979,
“... movement, with no obvious sound boundaries. None has sought more tenaciously and persuasively than Roman Jakobson to establish another (universal) level of analysis which would correspond more faithfully to the way in which we perceive spoken language. Jakobson, born in Moscow at the end of the last century, has been a ... ”