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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Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.Roman Jakobson
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
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When I speak it is in order to be heard.
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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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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.
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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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