From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.
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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.Roman Jakobson
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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A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
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In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.
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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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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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