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Citing the spoken word: Adventures in language documentation

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“Il n’est pas d’avantage possible à la<br />

l<strong>in</strong>guistique de représenter fidèlement<br />

le parler des langues vivantes même à<br />

l’aide de ces transcriptions arbitraires,<br />

tout à fait <strong>in</strong>suffisantes, imag<strong>in</strong>ées faute<br />

de mieux, et qu’aucun accord n’est<br />

parvenu à uniformiser. ... tout celà dont<br />

la l<strong>in</strong>guistique est <strong>in</strong>capable, le<br />

phonographe dès ma<strong>in</strong>tenant en offre<br />

la possibilité.”<br />

“Nor is it possible for l<strong>in</strong>guistics to faithfully represent <strong>the</strong> speech of liv<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>language</strong>s even with <strong>the</strong> help of its arbitrary and totally <strong>in</strong>sufficient<br />

transcriptions, made up for want of better and which no agreement has ever<br />

made uniform. ... all that of which l<strong>in</strong>guistics is <strong>in</strong>capable, <strong>the</strong> phonograph from<br />

now on makes possible.”<br />

(Léon Azoulay 1900:175)<br />

Azoulay, Léon 1900. L’ère nouvelle des sons et des bruits: Musées et archives phonographiques. Bullet<strong>in</strong>s et<br />

Memoires de la Societé d’Anthropologie de Paris 1, 3 mai 1900, 172–8.

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