A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
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Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.Roman Jakobson
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
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Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
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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.
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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
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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.
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