Quotes About Phonetics

#1. I like a narrative, even if it's fractured, or kind of psychedelic. But my favorite thing is if I hear words and I close my eyes and the connotations or the image I get in my head, combine with the sound of them - sometimes phonetics. I'm just stringing those together.

Stephen Malkmus

#2. My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.

Adelaide Crapsey

#3. Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.

Alexander Graham Bell

#4. 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

#5. I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me.

Adelaide Kane

#6. Moving from phonetics to etymology, 'vagina' originates from a word meaning sheath for a sword. Ain't got no vagina.

Inga Muscio

#7. 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

#8. In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You know graffiti, same root word.

DJ Spooky

#9. In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.

Eliza Coupe

#10. The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.

Thomas Edward Brown

#11. 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

#12. Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open.

Jo Walton

#13. We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. The days are always dark enough. There is no need for us to emphasize the fact by spreading further gloom.

George Madison Adams

#14. I've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn.

Wesley Clark

#15. Don't confuse pressure with pleasure. For some people it"s not sure if they are having a seizure or ceasure

Ana Claudia Antunes

#16. I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.

Wolfgang Puck

#17. He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.

Victor Hugo

#18. He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.

Laird Barron

#19. Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'

Catherine DeVrye