Edmund Leach on Roman Jakobson's Contributions to Linguistics
New Books in Literary Studies
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The Sound Patterns of the Alphabetical Code
Theory claims that what the listener recognizes are not in fact the sound elements as such but patterned combinations of opposition between paired constituents. This is standard usage for modern 8 year old children who write computer programs in the language known as BASIC. With a rather limited number of paired binary oppositions put in combination you soon reach an almost unlimited capacity of talk.
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