books.google.de - "Reading this volume transported me back to Harvard and MIT lecture halls of the 1960s, where weekly Roman Jakobson would spellbind his audience (this reviewer included), developing his vision of language through impassioned exposition, deft and devastating allusions to critical literature, anecdotes...http://books.google.de/books/about/The_sound_shape_of_language.html?hl=de&id=UjUulaAocmoC&q=sound+shape&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe sound shape of language