Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
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Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
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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.
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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.
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