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.Roman Jakobson
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
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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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From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.
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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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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.
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