Phonetics Quotes

There must be fish. You have to put out the fish but you either don't eat it or you have to leave some, because it sounds similar in phonetics to a phrase which means you have savings. - Ding Lan

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing. - Thomas Edward Brown

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

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent. - Brendan Gleeson

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve. - Roman Jakobson