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It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.
The opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy.
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.
Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.
Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
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.
